![]() When such letters were passed on to newspapers, they Soldiers used the new Army Post Office Corps to send letters home,ĭescribing their ‘baptisms of fire’, the rigours ofĬampaigning in Egypt, the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, and the reporting of Transportation of 35,000 men to the Egyptian theatre, deploying MarinesĪnd a 565-strong Naval Brigade as direct support, seizing the SuezĬanal, transporting supplies along the Sweetwater Canal, and providingįire support from Gatling machine-guns, artillery and an armoured Isandlwana, Maiwand (27 July 1880) or Majuba, and reflected impressiveĬo-operation between the armed services (with the navy assisting in the The campaign avoided any embarrassing reverses like Tel-el-Kebir (13 September) and Wolseley’s entry into Cairo (15 That is, from the passing of a vote of credit by the House of Commonsįor an expeditionary force (27 July 1882) to the crushing victory at Involved the largest expeditionary force despatched by Britain since theĬrimean War and achieved a decisive outcome in less than two months, ![]() The entire First Class Army Reserve was called out and forces were despatched from England, the Mediterranean garrisons and India.ĭramatically with recent campaigns in Africa and Afghanistan. The reluctance of the Porte or France to support intervention ensured that it would be an exclusively British affair. This hostility reached a crescendo when riots erupted in Alexandria (11 June 1882), involving the so-called massacre of Christians and the flight of many Europeans. The intervention was a response to the growth of the nationalist movement in Egypt under the military leadership of Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian minister of war, and its burgeoning hostility towards European control over Khedive Tewfik's Government and its finances. The campaign avoided any reverses such that Isandlwana, Maiwand or Majuba, and reflected impressive co-operation between the armed services. ![]() The interventions in Egypt involved the largest expeditionary force despatched by Britain since the Crimean War and achieved a decisive outcome in less than two months. ![]() This chapter provides the information on several interventions in Egypt that contrasted with recent campaigns in Africa and Afghanistan. ![]()
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