Pharaoh To Farouk by H.Wood Jarvis Free PDF book (History of Egypt) 1955

King Farouk 1940





The key to a nation's future is in her past. The nation that loses it has no future . . . We cannot recreate the past, but we cannot escape it. Three thousand years or so before the dawn of the Christian era, when Pharaoh ruled the land of Egypt with an iron hand, a hundred thousand men, we are told by Herodotus, toiled beneath the scorching rays of the Egyptian sun to raise those incomparable monuments, the Pyramids of Gizeh, which in due course came to take their inevitable place among the World's Seven Wonders. Twenty-five centuries then went by, during which Pharaoh succeeded Pharaoh until the then reigning monarch, hard-pressed by Persian invaders, gathered together as much of his Treasure as he could, and fled for his life to Ethiopia. In such humiliating collapse ended the reign of Egypt's last native king three hundred and fifty years before Christ was born.During the next twenty-three centuries, Egypt lay torpid and dormant under a succession of alien rulers a period that was ended by the decision taken by the British Government in 1946 to withdraw all British troops from the Nile Valley and to evacuate the naval base at Alexandria. So, at long last, Egypt became once again except for treaty obligations such as those which limit the freedom of every civilized country a sovereign and independent State,Those Five Thousand Years had seen the successive stages of a brilliant pageant the Foundation and the Fall of Thebes; the Oppression and Exodus from Egypt of the Chosen Race; the fatal fascination of the irresistible Cleopatra; the intellectual zenith of Euclidian Alexandria; the defeat of the cohorts of Imperial Rome by invincible Caliphate Cavalry; the glittering resplendence and inhuman massacre of those picturesque tyrants, the Mamelukes; the construction and completion of the world's most revolutionizing Canal; the titanic rivalry of France and England; the crowning victory in Egyptian waters of the immortal Nelson; the Egyptian 1 Sir Arthur Bryant in the Preface to his English Saga. (My italics,)darkness into which leaped the light that shone 'in the sudden making of splendid names' Saladin, Napoleon, de Lesseps, Gordon, Watson, Cromer, Kitchener, Wingate, Allenby, Wavell, Montgomery. If, in spite of all this, the reader finds that at the present moment of unparalleled gravity in human affairs he is asked to concentrate his attention even though for only a few pages upon the calamities and crises of a period so remote from our own days as ancient Egypt, it is only because the story of Egypt, from Pharaoh to Farouk, is an indivisible unit. The Egypt of the British Occupation is the foreground and that of the Pyramid Bangs is the background of one and the same clamantly human picture. [Download This PDF Book ##download##] 5>