 The mayor of the city, Darwish al-Wailili, headed a delegation and met with the garrison commander and asked him to apologize to the people for this attack.In the 1919 revolution, the people of Mahmudiya smashed the Delta Railroad tracks and set the main station on fire.On July 11, 1942 and during World War II, Mahmoudiyah received thousands of displaced people who were spared the horrors of bombing and bombs from Alexandria, Kafr el-Dawar, Khorshid, and al-Baida.