The war in Egypt was seen as a great war that took the shame of 1967 off of Egypt even thought after the first 11 days of the war Egypt suffered heavy military defeats in some battles, It successfully saw all Egyptian objectives that were set before the war met at the end, Egypt successfully crossed the Suez Canal and Destroyed the Myth of the Israeli army "invincibility" and successfully held a portion of Sinai that helped them negotiate the return of all of the Sinai peninsula later and defeated Israel at the last major battle of the war () and repelled back Israeli invasion of the city with Police forces and Civilians defending the city with light weapons against Israeli tanks with one armored brigade and one infantry battalion.