Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt

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Author

ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, 1841?-1911

Title

Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt : being a personal narrative of events

Credits

Produced by Paul Clark, Robert Cicconetti and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

Egypt -- History -- Tawfīq, 1879-1892

Category

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eBook-No.

41373

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41373

Release Date

November 16, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt
2. 2.BOOKS BY WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT — PROSE — POETRY
3. 3.PUBLISHER'S NOTE
4. 4.PREFACE OF 1895
5. 5.PREFACE ON PUBLICATION
6. 6.CONTENTS — APPENDICES
7. 7.CHAPTER I EGYPT UNDER ISMAÏL — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER II SIR RIVERS WILSON'S MISSION — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER III TRAVELS IN ARABIA AND INDIA
10. 10.CHAPTER IV ENGLISH POLITICS IN 1880 — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER V THE REFORM LEADERS AT THE AZHAR — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VI BEGINNINGS OF THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT
13. 13.CHAPTER VII TRIUMPH OF THE REFORMERS IN EGYPT
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII GAMBETTA'S POLICY. THE JOINT NOTE — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER IX FALL OF SHERIF PASHA — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER X MY PLEADING IN DOWNING STREET — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER XI THE CIRCASSIAN PLOT — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER XII INTRIGUES AND COUNTER INTRIGUES — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII DERVISH'S MISSION — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV A LAST APPEAL TO GLADSTONE — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER XV THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI THE CAMPAIGN OF TEL-EL-KEBIR — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII THE ARABI TRIAL — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII DUFFERIN'S MISSION — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.APPENDIX I — Arabi's Account of his Life and of the Events of 1881-1882, as told to me, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, in Arabic yesterday, March 16th, 1903, at Sheykh Obeyd — The Grand Mufti's remarks on the above — Further Account given by Sheykh Mohammed Abdu, December 22nd, 1903 — Conversation with Arabi at Sheykh Obeyd, January 2nd, 1904
26. 26.APPENDIX II — Programme of the National Party of Egypt, forwarded by Mr. Blunt to Mr. Gladstone, Dec. 20th, 1881, with Mr. Gladstone's Answers — Mr. Gladstone's Answer — Mr. Gladstone's Answer to Mr. Blunt's Second Letter dated Cairo, February 7th, 1882 — Extract from the Queen's Speech forwarded to Mr. Blunt by Mr. Hamilton
27. 27.APPENDIX III — Text of the Egyptian Constitution of February 7th, 1882 — Letter from Mahmoud Samy Pasha on taking office, February 2nd, 1882, to His Highness the Khedive — Letter from His Highness the Khedive to His Excellence Mahmoud Samy Pasha — DECREE
28. 28.APPENDIX IV Letter Received by Mr. Blunt from Boghos Pasha Nubar as to his Father Nubar Pasha's Political Connection with the Khedive Ismaïl. (Translated from the French.)
29. 29.APPENDIX V Note as to the Berlin Congress.
30. 30.APPENDIX VI THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND — I — II — III — IV — V — THE END

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