Portrayal of the revolt by The Illustrated London News
Date
1879–1882
Location
Egypt
Result
Revolt suppressed
ʻUrabi exiled
British intervention in Egypt
Belligerents
Khedivate of Egypt
United Kingdom
India
ʻUrabi forces
Commanders and leaders
Tewfik Pasha Garnet Wolseley Beauchamp Seymour
Ahmed ʻUrabi Mahmoud Fehmy Mahmoud el-Baroudi
Strength
36,000 (1879) 40,560 (1882)
11,300 regulars
50,000 reservists and irregular troops[1]
The ʻUrabi revolt, also known as the ʻUrabi Revolution (Arabic: الثورة العرابية), was a nationalist uprising in Khedivate of Egypt from 1879 to 1882. It was led by and named for Colonel Ahmed Urabi and sought to depose the khedive, Tewfik Pasha, and end Imperial British and French influence over the country.
The uprising was ended by the Anglo-Egyptian War and the British takeover of the country, beginning the history of Egypt under the British.[2][3]
^Featherstone, Donald (1993). Tel El-Kebir 1882. Osprey Publishing. pp. 40–41.
^Thomas Mayer, The Changing Past: Egyptian Historiography of the Urabi Revolt, 1882-1982 (University Presses of Florida, 1988).
^Donald Malcolm Reid. "The Urabi revolution and the British conquest, 1879-1882." in M. W. Daly, ed. The Cambridge History of Egypt (Volume 2) (1999) pp 217-238.
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