Anwar Sadat

Born on December 25, 1918 into a family of thirteen children, Anwar was a very strong man. He grew up 40 miles north of Cairo in the town of Mit Abul Kom, Egypt; which is in the province of Minufiya. Sadat's father worked as a clerk in a local military hospital, which got Anwar very much into the military business. By the time of his birth, Egypt was in the becoming of a British Colony.
Large debts had forced the Egyptian government to sell the British government its interests in the French Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean. The British and French had used…