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THE CHARACTER
Name; Gupta Muhammad Hassan [Egypt]
Personality; Normally quiet and withdrawn, Hassan has maintained a great amount of pride within his soul. Though he tends to speak a little more to closer acquaintances than others in formality, he still has a certain hushed aura about him when it comes to large groups aside from one on one interaction. Full of adoration for his heritage, he holds no shame in who he is and where he comes from, nor does he ever hold much regret for any actions he performs or voice he proclaims in any situation. For someone so proud though, he has very little to say in regards to much, a regal and silent character. In his past, he learned the silence was golden and you could learn so much more from taking in your life through all senses than simply just living it day by day. He is an observer of sorts, not one to actively jump up and participate in a public activity but he has a certain air about him that screams capability if he were forced. He never backs down from anything that comes his way, but is not forthcoming about any talents or skills he might possess. He is a strong figure when it comes to mental attentions and strategic requirements and while he lacks apparent strength in his physical form, some lingers below the surface of his skin. From his beliefs comes his polite but stubborn nature, raised with the knowledge of bettering himself and the concepts of those around him when it came to social and cultural strength. Though he has not always been able to stride so gracefully through all of his ordeals, he maintains a stable hold on his nature and humanity and while he rarely opens up to those around him, once in a blue moon, he shares the thoughts of a rather complex interior beneath a calm facade.
History; One of the ancients and the second oldest nation on the list, Egypt has been around to witness more than just world wars. A nation that has miraculously survived the onslaughts of others oppressions and control, disasters, religious turmoil and political tension, there is not a great deal that Egypt can say he has not been through. An outgoing and constantly developing nation, Egypt began with various groups of indigenous tribes and moved onward to be noted as one of the most advanced civilizations of early/ancient society. Historians often blame the influences and repressive nature of the invaders for Egypt falling behind as the world grew, while others blame religion or political hide-n-seek, but that does not stop him from being regarded with admiration and respect as far as early development is concerned.
In-between his youth to the current date, Egypt went through many political tug-of-wars. Leading up to the first World War, he had been ruled by and possessed under, and not exempting internal political affairs, the Greeks, the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire and the British Empire as well as a handful of other smaller empires that would all leave their own marks on Egypt's skin whether negative or positive. Somehow, miraculously, he was never completely consumed by the others will of the imperial forces like many others, always being able to maintain some level of independence, some level of national pride.
Before the start of World War I, Egypt was being pushed and pulled between three European powers of France, Great Britain and the slowly diminishing Ottoman Empire. In 1881, in opposition to European control, the natives of Egypt in a large military demonstration forced the current Khedive [TRANS: Governor] Tewfik Pasha, to dismiss his Prime Minster once news of his workings amongst the European powers became public. It was obvious to Egypt that the approaching powers would be a problem and in the spring of 1882 it would only become more apparent. France and Great Britain, both aiming to assist the failing Khedive in his political pursuit sent warships to the ports of Alexandria, aiming to spread tension and fear into Egypt. In retaliation to the actions though, Egypt showed very little alarm and officers within his nations, lead by Ahmed Orabi, pushed his troops after Pasha in attempts to seize control of the governmental offices from within.
In June, Egypt was being handled by the hands of nationalists opposed to European domination which naturally did not settle with the opposing powers. Attempts by the British naval forces to halt the nationalist control failed ultimately until leading to their landing of expeditionary forces at both ends of the Suez Canal in August 1882. Defeating the Egypt and his army at Tel El Kebir in September, Great Britain took control and placed Pasha back at the head of office.
Though the British say they did not expect the long-term occupation that took place, Egypt would beg to differ in reply to the name of Evelyn Baring, the Earl of Cromer. Cromer not only viewed Egypts' political stability as something the British should feel obliged to take in stride but also the nation's financial reform as a long-term objective. He brought the ideology that without financial stability there was none politically and thus created a program to keep Great Britain's long-term investment in Egypt's productive resources [IE: the cotton economy] a constant. This would mark the beginning of the British military occupation of Egypt that lasted until the year 1939. Due to situations such as the Denshawai incident on the 13th of June, 1906, the tensions between Great Britain and Egypt grew and rebellion, nationalist replies against British rule, began to spring up more commonly as the years ticked by.
When the threat of war rose at the beginning of 1914, Egypt was in a tight bind with Great Britain. Due to the result of war declaration with the Ottoman Empire, and Empire that Egypt was supposedly still a part of as would sway Turkey's opinion, Great Britain declared Egypt to be Protectorate nation of the British Empire, which in turn, Egypt never really fully approved of. Taking the current Khedive off the throne, Egypt was forced to watch as Great Britain took their choice from the royal line and made them Sultan of Egypt by the will of Great Britain's own personal interest.
World War I for Egypt, though not as large of a problem as it was for other nations abroad, created its own issues in the form of the Middle Eastern threatre. The Allied Powers [The British and The Russians] and the Central Powers [The Ottoman Empire and German Military Mission] fought over pivotal land and waterways located amongst the Middle Eastern nations. War was brought to Egypt's territories on October 29th, 1914 and out of it, two of the four main campaigns of the war surrounded Egypt directly; the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, as well as the Arab Revolt in 1916. Due to Egypt's participation and support in the Campaign as well as the revolt, he was considered an Allied power which caused a handful of the Egyptian locals and Egypt himself to be brought up in arms, defending his stance, denying any attachment to the British motives and general actions during the majority of the war. In the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, Egypt joined forces with his British oppressors to fight away the Turkish led Ottoman army, successfully diverting them and holding the ground around the Suez Canal. Troops were able to push the Ottoman forces back all the way into Damascus, directly linking the campaign to the Arab Revolt, a movement with the motive to secure independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks by creating a single unified Arab state from Syria all the way into Yemen, ending up being lead by the infamous British officer, Captain T.E Lawrence. The French and the British both supplied the Arab population involved with ammunition and artillery. The end of the first World War was a success for Egypt and his brethren nations with hesitant thanks to the British forces. Though respect was tentatively earned to the British due to the Arab forces under Lawrence's control, the Battle of Megiddo [ The last battle in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign at Damascus] was a victory. Egypt could not be mad at Great Britain for that, nor could he accept it positively. The Ottoman army was cornered and running within the first 10 days of the battle and On the 30th of September, 1918, T.E Lawrence and his Arab troops rode into Damascus the next day to receive the surrender. Egypt had officially gained his freedom from assumed Turkish oppression and in the end, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force seized Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and a good chunk of the Arabian peninsula as well as southern Syria. Hostilities for Egypt would end on October 30th, 1918.
Throughout the next few years, uprisings and demonstrations by Egypt were a constant factor, most obviously within the year 1919 due to a leader nationalist group aiming for Egypt's independence being arrested and deported. This infuriated Egypt, which was a response that he rarely was open about, yet between the months of March and April his anger and his peoples would start the First Revolution in which the British repression of the anti-colonial riots lead to the death of nearly 800 people. Desperate to resolve the matter, political representatives from Great Britain aimed to replace the Egypt protectorate with a treaty of alliance. The mission would turn unsuccessful due to the important of maintain control over the Suez Canal and any terms that the current leader of the diplomatic mission, Lord Curzon, were denied and not accepted by Egypt's current Khedive. Egypt for could not blame him and Great Britain on the other hand generally did not seem to have all of his effort placed within the attempt. From 1921 and onward, demonstrations continued to lead to violence when British authorities continued to deport nationalist leaders.
Tensions between Egypt and Great Britain grew and while in deference of the developing nationalism the UK unilaterally declared Egyptian independence in 1922, the nation's influence still remained. Great Britain would continue to dominate Egypt's political life and fostered economic, and governmental reforms, still maintaining their control over the Suez, Sudan and Egypt's "external protection". The nations title would come to be known as the Kingdom of Egypt, a constitutional monarchy that included not only Egypt but the nation of Sudan.
When 1928 rolled around Egypt once more had three major political forces competing amongst each other [The Wafd -a nationalist political organization-, King Fuad -the British installed Sultan- and the British themselves -wanting namely to hold their control over the canal-]. With the death of King Faud in 1939, his son Farouk inherited the throne and at the influence of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia signed a treaty titled the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty which required British troops to withdraw from Egypt minus the area of the Suez Canal which in turn was agreed to be evacuated by 1949. As it can most likely be figured, Great Britain was none too happy about the ordeal but it was the first time in a very long while that Egypt could find at least some sort of sheltered peace and feel of independence.
World War II brought indirect involvement from Egypt. Before the start of the war, in fear of approaching tensions, Great Britain moved the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet from the sea around Malta to the region of Egypt's port city Alexandria. Under the 1936 treaty, Cairo would become a major military base for the British forces leading up to the start of the war, and even though Egypt was technically neutral, that did not stop other nations from not only wanting the nations land as a pivotal marine base but the location of the British upon Egypt's soil would rope in the curiosity of opposing forces and in turn irritate Egypt once more.
In September of 1949, the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, sent his Italian forces stationed on the coast of Libya to bring invasion to the British held Egypt, setting up defense in forts around Sidi Barrani, a village directly off the Mediterranean. In response to the act, in December of 1940, the Allied forces stationed there launched their counter-attack titled Operation Compass, considered the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign. War was declared on June 10th, 1940 and in turn the forces with Egypt turned to seize all Italian property in Cairo and shun the Italian populace, arresting the men and leaving the women and children with no place to turn to. Things between Egypt and Italy did not get any better and while the two bickered, there was not much Italy could do against the troops of Great Britain and Egypt's own.
Operation Compass would come to be a victory for the Allied forces. The success of the attack would push Italian forces from Egypt's boarders and into El Aghelia of Libya and ultimately lead to the capture of the pivotal Italian stronghold, Fort Capuzzo. In response to the defeat of the Italian troops, Germany sent out the Deutsches Afrikakorps commanded by Erwin Rommel to reinforce the fleeing Italians. Adolf Hitlers troops served him well. Within weeks of their arrival in February of 1941, the Allied Forces had been pushed back against Egypt. Like most nations in attempts to claim Egypt, Germany's strategic goal had been to slice throughout the lands and march northward to capture the Suez Canal, continue inward into the British Mandate of Palestine, subject the Jewish populations to the same Holocaust suffering happening in Europe and activate and Arab uprising strong enough to cause more problems for the British and force them out. While there was a handful of Arab leaders that would support Nazi Germany in their battle against the Allies, their plans were often foiled quickly and they were jailed by British forces. Egypt never really approved of Germany's advances, but what he could do to fight against it obviously worked out in the long run.
The playground of the Allied and the Axis, Egypt's territory was invaded by Rommel's offensive and pursuit of the British. Stopping just nearly 150 miles from Cairo in a town called El Alamein, the battle that took place there would end up a loss for the Germans due to main fault of the desert war; long supply lines from home to across the Mediterranean. Though the First Battle of El Alemein was a loss, in September of 1942 Rommel would try again to break through the British lines during the Battle of Alam Halfa, but was once again stopped short. From the 23rd of October to the 6th of November in 1942, the Second Battle of El Alemein [IE: considered one of the two major Allied victories that contributed to the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany] took place and in turn force the German troops once more from Egyptian soil back into the deserts of Libya and Tunisia.
The battle would end the Axis threat within North Africa and secure Egypt and his brother nations for the Allied forces as well as solidify the hope for personal independence.
Cleared of war, Egypt was deemed safe enough to host the Cairo Conference of November 22nd to 26th, 1943. Though the conference itself would not pertain to Egypt directly, discussions were held on the concerns of the Allied position against Japan and what would happen to post-war Asia. The results were published as the Cairo Declaration. Though he was host to the Allied base in his port town of Alexandria and capital of Cairo, he had little to do with the rest of the war, only able to watch it to the end.
SAMPLES
Third person; He could only remember how bleak it had seemed, how dark the world had become after the last bullet had been fired. Though it only seemed like a distant memory on the pallet of his mind, Egypt trembled at the thought of it all. Figures marching, falling, dying, scrabbling for life, bloodied hands adorned with torn and ripped nails digging into the sand; these images haunted his dreams, possessed his soul and caused him to wake up during restless nights, sweat trickling down his brow, kissing the skin of his cheek and falling down off the arch of his chin. He would wake up, his chest rising and falling heavily, put his hands against the heat of his face and sigh, releasing the breaths onto the winds.
He could only feel the weakness, the wary feeling of concern flooding through his steps throughout the day, and while he had been weak in the past, this was an unnatural sort of control that seemed to cause his feet to seep through the sands and pull him in slowly as if he was being strangled, as if he was being consumed by his own lands. Even the desert winds were cool in the heat of the day, even something warning trailed on their birth amongst the waters of the warmed sea. The call to morning prayer seemed quieter, the people seemed nearly silent, his bosses seemed solemn, looking upon him as if he was death risen, looking at him as if the plague had risen to his skin and blistered his body with invisible wounds, unseen but present. Though he had traveled such a path many times before, Egypt had never really felt helpless, breathless. He had never once been so concerned he wished to seek guidance but the approaching darkness that seeped into the crevasses of his mind at night would not leave him be.
Lost again, he figured upon reflection that he should have seen it coming. He felt exposed, he felt naked to the elements, and that day, though it seemed like any other in the perspective of things, would change his life forever.
His breaths were soundless when he saw it approaching, the overshadowing force from his mind out to haunt him in the fading light of day outside the steps of his home. It loomed over him, like an eclipse from the sun, making him cold, making his fingertips numb and his legs weak. It wrapped it's hold around him, like the tight embrace of a lover, desperate and needy, it tightened around his lungs, it forced the life from his throat following only by the soft groan of pain that wracked his body. His eyelids felt heavy, his voice was useless even if he willed it to speak and in the comfort of control he slipped, his feet taken from under him, his arms unable to catch him, spine unable to arch, figure unable to twist, hands unable to reach out and catch onto any help that could be offered.
Egypt always wondered what it would feel like to be swallowed up by the heat of the sands. Egypt always wondered what it would feel like to be completely covered by the weight.
It was a shame it was so cold.
Name; Gupta Muhammad Hassan [Egypt]
Personality; Normally quiet and withdrawn, Hassan has maintained a great amount of pride within his soul. Though he tends to speak a little more to closer acquaintances than others in formality, he still has a certain hushed aura about him when it comes to large groups aside from one on one interaction. Full of adoration for his heritage, he holds no shame in who he is and where he comes from, nor does he ever hold much regret for any actions he performs or voice he proclaims in any situation. For someone so proud though, he has very little to say in regards to much, a regal and silent character. In his past, he learned the silence was golden and you could learn so much more from taking in your life through all senses than simply just living it day by day. He is an observer of sorts, not one to actively jump up and participate in a public activity but he has a certain air about him that screams capability if he were forced. He never backs down from anything that comes his way, but is not forthcoming about any talents or skills he might possess. He is a strong figure when it comes to mental attentions and strategic requirements and while he lacks apparent strength in his physical form, some lingers below the surface of his skin. From his beliefs comes his polite but stubborn nature, raised with the knowledge of bettering himself and the concepts of those around him when it came to social and cultural strength. Though he has not always been able to stride so gracefully through all of his ordeals, he maintains a stable hold on his nature and humanity and while he rarely opens up to those around him, once in a blue moon, he shares the thoughts of a rather complex interior beneath a calm facade.
History; One of the ancients and the second oldest nation on the list, Egypt has been around to witness more than just world wars. A nation that has miraculously survived the onslaughts of others oppressions and control, disasters, religious turmoil and political tension, there is not a great deal that Egypt can say he has not been through. An outgoing and constantly developing nation, Egypt began with various groups of indigenous tribes and moved onward to be noted as one of the most advanced civilizations of early/ancient society. Historians often blame the influences and repressive nature of the invaders for Egypt falling behind as the world grew, while others blame religion or political hide-n-seek, but that does not stop him from being regarded with admiration and respect as far as early development is concerned.
In-between his youth to the current date, Egypt went through many political tug-of-wars. Leading up to the first World War, he had been ruled by and possessed under, and not exempting internal political affairs, the Greeks, the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire and the British Empire as well as a handful of other smaller empires that would all leave their own marks on Egypt's skin whether negative or positive. Somehow, miraculously, he was never completely consumed by the others will of the imperial forces like many others, always being able to maintain some level of independence, some level of national pride.
Before the start of World War I, Egypt was being pushed and pulled between three European powers of France, Great Britain and the slowly diminishing Ottoman Empire. In 1881, in opposition to European control, the natives of Egypt in a large military demonstration forced the current Khedive [TRANS: Governor] Tewfik Pasha, to dismiss his Prime Minster once news of his workings amongst the European powers became public. It was obvious to Egypt that the approaching powers would be a problem and in the spring of 1882 it would only become more apparent. France and Great Britain, both aiming to assist the failing Khedive in his political pursuit sent warships to the ports of Alexandria, aiming to spread tension and fear into Egypt. In retaliation to the actions though, Egypt showed very little alarm and officers within his nations, lead by Ahmed Orabi, pushed his troops after Pasha in attempts to seize control of the governmental offices from within.
In June, Egypt was being handled by the hands of nationalists opposed to European domination which naturally did not settle with the opposing powers. Attempts by the British naval forces to halt the nationalist control failed ultimately until leading to their landing of expeditionary forces at both ends of the Suez Canal in August 1882. Defeating the Egypt and his army at Tel El Kebir in September, Great Britain took control and placed Pasha back at the head of office.
Though the British say they did not expect the long-term occupation that took place, Egypt would beg to differ in reply to the name of Evelyn Baring, the Earl of Cromer. Cromer not only viewed Egypts' political stability as something the British should feel obliged to take in stride but also the nation's financial reform as a long-term objective. He brought the ideology that without financial stability there was none politically and thus created a program to keep Great Britain's long-term investment in Egypt's productive resources [IE: the cotton economy] a constant. This would mark the beginning of the British military occupation of Egypt that lasted until the year 1939. Due to situations such as the Denshawai incident on the 13th of June, 1906, the tensions between Great Britain and Egypt grew and rebellion, nationalist replies against British rule, began to spring up more commonly as the years ticked by.
When the threat of war rose at the beginning of 1914, Egypt was in a tight bind with Great Britain. Due to the result of war declaration with the Ottoman Empire, and Empire that Egypt was supposedly still a part of as would sway Turkey's opinion, Great Britain declared Egypt to be Protectorate nation of the British Empire, which in turn, Egypt never really fully approved of. Taking the current Khedive off the throne, Egypt was forced to watch as Great Britain took their choice from the royal line and made them Sultan of Egypt by the will of Great Britain's own personal interest.
World War I for Egypt, though not as large of a problem as it was for other nations abroad, created its own issues in the form of the Middle Eastern threatre. The Allied Powers [The British and The Russians] and the Central Powers [The Ottoman Empire and German Military Mission] fought over pivotal land and waterways located amongst the Middle Eastern nations. War was brought to Egypt's territories on October 29th, 1914 and out of it, two of the four main campaigns of the war surrounded Egypt directly; the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, as well as the Arab Revolt in 1916. Due to Egypt's participation and support in the Campaign as well as the revolt, he was considered an Allied power which caused a handful of the Egyptian locals and Egypt himself to be brought up in arms, defending his stance, denying any attachment to the British motives and general actions during the majority of the war. In the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, Egypt joined forces with his British oppressors to fight away the Turkish led Ottoman army, successfully diverting them and holding the ground around the Suez Canal. Troops were able to push the Ottoman forces back all the way into Damascus, directly linking the campaign to the Arab Revolt, a movement with the motive to secure independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks by creating a single unified Arab state from Syria all the way into Yemen, ending up being lead by the infamous British officer, Captain T.E Lawrence. The French and the British both supplied the Arab population involved with ammunition and artillery. The end of the first World War was a success for Egypt and his brethren nations with hesitant thanks to the British forces. Though respect was tentatively earned to the British due to the Arab forces under Lawrence's control, the Battle of Megiddo [ The last battle in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign at Damascus] was a victory. Egypt could not be mad at Great Britain for that, nor could he accept it positively. The Ottoman army was cornered and running within the first 10 days of the battle and On the 30th of September, 1918, T.E Lawrence and his Arab troops rode into Damascus the next day to receive the surrender. Egypt had officially gained his freedom from assumed Turkish oppression and in the end, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force seized Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and a good chunk of the Arabian peninsula as well as southern Syria. Hostilities for Egypt would end on October 30th, 1918.
Throughout the next few years, uprisings and demonstrations by Egypt were a constant factor, most obviously within the year 1919 due to a leader nationalist group aiming for Egypt's independence being arrested and deported. This infuriated Egypt, which was a response that he rarely was open about, yet between the months of March and April his anger and his peoples would start the First Revolution in which the British repression of the anti-colonial riots lead to the death of nearly 800 people. Desperate to resolve the matter, political representatives from Great Britain aimed to replace the Egypt protectorate with a treaty of alliance. The mission would turn unsuccessful due to the important of maintain control over the Suez Canal and any terms that the current leader of the diplomatic mission, Lord Curzon, were denied and not accepted by Egypt's current Khedive. Egypt for could not blame him and Great Britain on the other hand generally did not seem to have all of his effort placed within the attempt. From 1921 and onward, demonstrations continued to lead to violence when British authorities continued to deport nationalist leaders.
Tensions between Egypt and Great Britain grew and while in deference of the developing nationalism the UK unilaterally declared Egyptian independence in 1922, the nation's influence still remained. Great Britain would continue to dominate Egypt's political life and fostered economic, and governmental reforms, still maintaining their control over the Suez, Sudan and Egypt's "external protection". The nations title would come to be known as the Kingdom of Egypt, a constitutional monarchy that included not only Egypt but the nation of Sudan.
When 1928 rolled around Egypt once more had three major political forces competing amongst each other [The Wafd -a nationalist political organization-, King Fuad -the British installed Sultan- and the British themselves -wanting namely to hold their control over the canal-]. With the death of King Faud in 1939, his son Farouk inherited the throne and at the influence of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia signed a treaty titled the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty which required British troops to withdraw from Egypt minus the area of the Suez Canal which in turn was agreed to be evacuated by 1949. As it can most likely be figured, Great Britain was none too happy about the ordeal but it was the first time in a very long while that Egypt could find at least some sort of sheltered peace and feel of independence.
World War II brought indirect involvement from Egypt. Before the start of the war, in fear of approaching tensions, Great Britain moved the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet from the sea around Malta to the region of Egypt's port city Alexandria. Under the 1936 treaty, Cairo would become a major military base for the British forces leading up to the start of the war, and even though Egypt was technically neutral, that did not stop other nations from not only wanting the nations land as a pivotal marine base but the location of the British upon Egypt's soil would rope in the curiosity of opposing forces and in turn irritate Egypt once more.
In September of 1949, the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, sent his Italian forces stationed on the coast of Libya to bring invasion to the British held Egypt, setting up defense in forts around Sidi Barrani, a village directly off the Mediterranean. In response to the act, in December of 1940, the Allied forces stationed there launched their counter-attack titled Operation Compass, considered the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign. War was declared on June 10th, 1940 and in turn the forces with Egypt turned to seize all Italian property in Cairo and shun the Italian populace, arresting the men and leaving the women and children with no place to turn to. Things between Egypt and Italy did not get any better and while the two bickered, there was not much Italy could do against the troops of Great Britain and Egypt's own.
Operation Compass would come to be a victory for the Allied forces. The success of the attack would push Italian forces from Egypt's boarders and into El Aghelia of Libya and ultimately lead to the capture of the pivotal Italian stronghold, Fort Capuzzo. In response to the defeat of the Italian troops, Germany sent out the Deutsches Afrikakorps commanded by Erwin Rommel to reinforce the fleeing Italians. Adolf Hitlers troops served him well. Within weeks of their arrival in February of 1941, the Allied Forces had been pushed back against Egypt. Like most nations in attempts to claim Egypt, Germany's strategic goal had been to slice throughout the lands and march northward to capture the Suez Canal, continue inward into the British Mandate of Palestine, subject the Jewish populations to the same Holocaust suffering happening in Europe and activate and Arab uprising strong enough to cause more problems for the British and force them out. While there was a handful of Arab leaders that would support Nazi Germany in their battle against the Allies, their plans were often foiled quickly and they were jailed by British forces. Egypt never really approved of Germany's advances, but what he could do to fight against it obviously worked out in the long run.
The playground of the Allied and the Axis, Egypt's territory was invaded by Rommel's offensive and pursuit of the British. Stopping just nearly 150 miles from Cairo in a town called El Alamein, the battle that took place there would end up a loss for the Germans due to main fault of the desert war; long supply lines from home to across the Mediterranean. Though the First Battle of El Alemein was a loss, in September of 1942 Rommel would try again to break through the British lines during the Battle of Alam Halfa, but was once again stopped short. From the 23rd of October to the 6th of November in 1942, the Second Battle of El Alemein [IE: considered one of the two major Allied victories that contributed to the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany] took place and in turn force the German troops once more from Egyptian soil back into the deserts of Libya and Tunisia.
The battle would end the Axis threat within North Africa and secure Egypt and his brother nations for the Allied forces as well as solidify the hope for personal independence.
Cleared of war, Egypt was deemed safe enough to host the Cairo Conference of November 22nd to 26th, 1943. Though the conference itself would not pertain to Egypt directly, discussions were held on the concerns of the Allied position against Japan and what would happen to post-war Asia. The results were published as the Cairo Declaration. Though he was host to the Allied base in his port town of Alexandria and capital of Cairo, he had little to do with the rest of the war, only able to watch it to the end.
SAMPLES
Third person; He could only remember how bleak it had seemed, how dark the world had become after the last bullet had been fired. Though it only seemed like a distant memory on the pallet of his mind, Egypt trembled at the thought of it all. Figures marching, falling, dying, scrabbling for life, bloodied hands adorned with torn and ripped nails digging into the sand; these images haunted his dreams, possessed his soul and caused him to wake up during restless nights, sweat trickling down his brow, kissing the skin of his cheek and falling down off the arch of his chin. He would wake up, his chest rising and falling heavily, put his hands against the heat of his face and sigh, releasing the breaths onto the winds.
He could only feel the weakness, the wary feeling of concern flooding through his steps throughout the day, and while he had been weak in the past, this was an unnatural sort of control that seemed to cause his feet to seep through the sands and pull him in slowly as if he was being strangled, as if he was being consumed by his own lands. Even the desert winds were cool in the heat of the day, even something warning trailed on their birth amongst the waters of the warmed sea. The call to morning prayer seemed quieter, the people seemed nearly silent, his bosses seemed solemn, looking upon him as if he was death risen, looking at him as if the plague had risen to his skin and blistered his body with invisible wounds, unseen but present. Though he had traveled such a path many times before, Egypt had never really felt helpless, breathless. He had never once been so concerned he wished to seek guidance but the approaching darkness that seeped into the crevasses of his mind at night would not leave him be.
Lost again, he figured upon reflection that he should have seen it coming. He felt exposed, he felt naked to the elements, and that day, though it seemed like any other in the perspective of things, would change his life forever.
His breaths were soundless when he saw it approaching, the overshadowing force from his mind out to haunt him in the fading light of day outside the steps of his home. It loomed over him, like an eclipse from the sun, making him cold, making his fingertips numb and his legs weak. It wrapped it's hold around him, like the tight embrace of a lover, desperate and needy, it tightened around his lungs, it forced the life from his throat following only by the soft groan of pain that wracked his body. His eyelids felt heavy, his voice was useless even if he willed it to speak and in the comfort of control he slipped, his feet taken from under him, his arms unable to catch him, spine unable to arch, figure unable to twist, hands unable to reach out and catch onto any help that could be offered.
Egypt always wondered what it would feel like to be swallowed up by the heat of the sands. Egypt always wondered what it would feel like to be completely covered by the weight.
It was a shame it was so cold.