Battle of Tel-el-Kebir

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Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
date September 13, 1882
place Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt
output British victory
Parties to the conflict

United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom

Egypt 1882Egypt Egypt

Commander

Lieutenant General Garnet Wolseley

Major General ( liwā ) Ali al-Rubi Pasha

Troop strength
17,401 men, 61 cannons, 6 Gatlings approx. 20,000 men, 75 cannons
losses

57 dead, 382 wounded, 30 missing

approx. 2,000 fallen

In the battle of Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt on September 13, 1882, a British army under Garnet Joseph Wolseley defeated the army of Orabi Pasha , the leader of the Egyptian Urabi movement . As a result of the battle, the Urabi movement was crushed and Egypt was occupied by Great Britain.

prehistory

In the autumn of 1881, after the financial ruin of Egypt under Ismail Pasha, the country came under international financial control, unrest broke out (Urabi movement). On June 11th, there were bloody excesses against foreigners in Alexandria. On July 11, 1882, British warships under Admiral Seymour then shelled Alexandria . In September 1882, British troops under General Wolseley landed in Egypt to ensure further economic and financial penetration of the country and, above all, control of the Suez Canal .

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The battle

After General Wolseley Orabi Pasha believed he was going to land at Abukir , he actually went ashore in Suez . After a night march through the desert, he defeated Orabi Pasha on September 13 in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir . Orabi Pasha himself was captured. In the battle 17,500 British fought against 16,000 Egyptians. The battle lasted only about half an hour. The Egyptians lost about 2,000 men, while the British lost only 57 deaths.

Result

In the battle of Tel-el-Kebir the Egyptian army was crushed. It was then rebuilt under the command of a British commander in chief, the Sirdar .

Orabi Pasha was sentenced to death by the Egyptian government, but exiled to Ceylon at the urging of the British . British rule in Egypt began in 1882, extending beyond the First and Second World Wars . It was not until the Suez Crisis in 1956 that Egypt was completely freed from the British sphere of influence .

The turmoil in Egypt in the course of the Urabi movement favored the spread of the Mahdi movement in the Egyptian-occupied Sudan . After the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, the Mahdi met with new followers and the Mahdists established an independent state in Sudan.

literature

  • Michael Barthorp: Blood-red desert sand. The British Invasions of Egypt and the Sudan 1882-98 . Cassell Military Trade Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-304-36223-9 .
  • Donald Featherstone: Tel El-Kebir 1882: Wolseley's Conquest of Egypt . Osprey Publishing (Campaign, Vol. 27), 1993, ISBN 1855323338 .
  • Leigh Maxwell: The Ashanti Ring. Sir Garnet Wolseley's Campaigns 1870-1882 . Leo Cooper et al., London 1985, ISBN 0-436-27447-7 .
  • William Wright: A Tidy Little War: The British Invasion of Egypt 1882 . History Publishing Group, 2009, ISBN 0752450905 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maurice, JF: The Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt . Harrison and Sons, London 1887, p. 93 .
  2. ^ Maurice, JF: The Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt . Harrison and Sons, London 1887, p. 81 .
  3. ^ Maurice, JF: The Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt . Harrison and Sons, London 1887, p. 92 .
  4. ^ Maurice, JF: The Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt . Harrison and Sons, London 1887, p. 198 .

Coordinates: 30 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E