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Battle of Tel El Kebir
Part of Anglo-Egyptian War

Battle of Tel el-Kebir
painting by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville
Date13 September 1882
Location
near Kassassin, Canal Zone, Egypt
30°40′N 31°56′E / 30.667°N 31.933°E / 30.667; 31.933
Result British victory
Belligerents

United Kingdom United Kingdom

  • Battle of Tell El Kebir India
Khedivate of Egypt
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom Garnet Wolseley Ahmed ‘Urabi
Strength
13,000 troops
60 guns[1]
18,000 troops (estimates)[2]
60-75 guns
Casualties and losses
57 killed
380 wounded
22 missing[3]

800 killed and wounded [4][5]

58 guns captured[6]
Battle of Tell El Kebir is located in Egypt
Battle of Tell El Kebir
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Location within Egypt

The Battle of Tel El Kebir (often spelled Tel-El-Kebir) was fought on 13 September 1882 at Tell El Kebir in Egypt, 110 km north-north-east of Cairo. An entrenched Egyptian force under the command of Ahmed ʻUrabi was defeated by a British army led by Garnet Wolseley, in a sudden assault preceded by a march under cover of darkness. The battle was the decisive engagement of the Anglo-Egyptian War.

  1. ^ "The National Archives - Exhibitions & Learning online - British Battles".
  2. ^ Wright, William (2009). A Tidy Little War. Spellmount. p. 229.
  3. ^ Reproduction of official British casualty figures
  4. ^ Featherstone, Donald (1993). Tel El-Kebir 1882. Osprey Publishing. pp. 85–86.
  5. ^ Wright, Tidy Little War, p. 255
  6. ^ Wright, Tidy Little War, p. 229

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