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Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician who served in the military before helping to overthrow his country's monarchy in the early s. He served as vice president and later became president in Though his country faced internal economic instability, Sadat earned the Nobel Peace Prize for entering into peace agreements with Israel. He was assassinated soon after on October 6, , in Cairo, Egypt, by Muslim extremists.

In , the British created a military school in Egypt, and Sadat was among the first of its students. When he graduated from the academy, Sadat received a government post, where he met Gamal Abdel Nasser, who would one day rule Egypt. The pair bonded and formed a revolutionary group designed to overthrow British rule and expel the British from Egypt.

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Before the group could succeed, the British arrested and jailed Sadat in , but he escaped two years later. In , Sadat was again arrested, this time after being implicated in the assassination of pro-British minister Amin 'Uthman. Imprisoned until , when he was acquitted, upon release Sadat joined Nasser's Free Officers organization and was involved in the group's armed uprising against the Egyptian monarchy in Four years later, he supported Nasser's rise to the presidency.

Sadat held several high offices in Nasser's administration, eventually becoming vice president of Egypt —, —