Upon General Edmund Henry Allenby’s entrance into Jerusalem on December 11, 1917, after the British conquest of the city, he announced, “Now the Crusades have ended.” Forty years later(14,710 days or 40 years, 3 months, 10 days), in a speech on March 20, 1958, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser repeated the story, saying, “It was no accident at all that General Allenby, commander of the British forces, said on arriving in Jerusalem: ‘Today the wars of the Crusaders are completed.’"
