Book/Printed Material England in Egypt,
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Image 1 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 2 of England in Egypt, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Shelf T.fe UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. i
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 3 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 4 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 5 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 6 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 7 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 8 of England in Egypt, By the same Author. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA. No. 1 of the Timely Topics Series. 1 VOL. 16MO. With Maps. Price, 50c. This is a compact and clear statement of...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 9 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 10 of England in Egypt, VALLEY OF THE NILE.
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 11 of England in Egypt, TIMELY TOPICS nt ENGLAND IN EGYPT GEORGE MAKEPEACE TOWLE u AUTHOR OF ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN ASIA, MODERN GREECE, ETC. U BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 1886
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 12 of England in Egypt, xP Copyright, 18S5 By TICKNOR AND COMPANY. A/l rights reserved PRESS OF ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL BOSTON
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 13 of England in Egypt, PREFACE. The interference of England in the affairs of Egypt, and the results which have flowed therefrom, have for several years attracted the world s attention by a succession of striking and...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 14 of England in Egypt, 4 PREFACE. the history of Egypt during the last seventy years the present internal condition of the country the conquest and character of the region of the Soudan; the rise of the...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 15 of England in Egypt, CONTENTS. PAGE I. Modern Egypt 9 II. The Suez Canal 30 III. The Government, People and Resources OF Egypt 41 IV. The Soudan 55 V. El Mahdi, the False Prophet 62 VI....
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 16 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 17 of England in Egypt, LIST OF MAPS. VALLEY OF THE NILE Frontispiece FORTRESS OF THE SOUDAN facing page 58 KHARTOUM AND ENVIRONS 84
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 18 of England in Egypt,
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 19 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. I. MODERN EGYPT. The history of modern Egypt began with the foundation of the semi-feudal dynasty of the present reigning house by Mehemet Ali, in 1811. For three centuries...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 20 of England in Egypt, lO ENGLAND IN EGYPT. Turkey, maintained the government of the Mamlouk chiefs. The virtual ruler of Egypt vs^as a native Bey, chosen by Beys. It w^as he who levied taxes, kept up...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 21 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT, II strong enough to depose, and even on one occasion to execute, the viceroys sent by the Sul- tan to rule over his uncomfortable dependency. Mehemet Ali, who in...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 22 of England in Egypt, 12 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. No sooner had Mehemet AH found himself in power than he set about building up a strong nationality. He suppressed the military aristocracy of the Mamlouks, which struggled...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 23 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 13 Turkey, England, Russia and Austria, con- cluded in 1840, his right to Egyptian sover- eignty was acknowledged, and this was declared hereditary in his family. The principal re-...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 24 of England in Egypt, 14 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. Egypt is beneath the autocratic control of the foreigner, there are many traces through its present administrative constitution of a master-hand in State craft. It is declared, on...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 25 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 1 5 All s third son. At this time the order of succession to the Egyptian throne, like that in Turkey, was that the eldest male of the reign-...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 26 of England in Egypt, i6 ENGLAND IN EGYPT, eign interference, and to reduce his dynasty to vassalage to England. Ismail was a man of European education and experience. He had studied long in Paris, and when...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 27 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 1 7 labors. He was, moreover, one of the most suave and accessible of men. Yet his rule was in many respects harsh, despotic, and cruel. He ground down...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 28 of England in Egypt, IQ ENGLAND IN EGYPT. induced the Sultan to grant the Khedive the right, hitherto forbidden, to send envoys to foreign courts, and to maintain an inde- pendent Egyptian army. Thus the ties...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 29 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT, 1 9 the creditors of Egypt in almost every Euro- pean country, but principally in England and in France. Of course in each case that a loan was made,...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 30 of England in Egypt, 20. ENGLAND IN EGYPT. succession, the unfunded liabilities of Egypt had reached the sum of $130,000,000, for which Egypt had to pay an average annual interest of no less than 14 per...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 31 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 21 shares in the Suez canal to the British gov- ernment. By this dramatic operation of Lord Beaconsfield, then Premier, the Egyptian treas- ury received the sum of $19,882,915....
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 32 of England in Egypt, 22 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. compelled to call in outside assistance. Ac- cordingly he asked the British government to send two financial experts to Cairo, to examine into and effect a reform in...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 33 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 23 land and France that they should cooperate in bringing about a reform in Egyptian finance. To Mr. Goschen, therefore, was joined M. Joubert, as representing French interests. These...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 34 of England in Egypt, 24 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. collect the revenues of Egypt, and to distribute the collected revenue among the several depart- ments. The other had charge of the audit of the treasury, and of...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 35 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 25 commissions was composed entirely of English- men and Frenchmen, and was intrusted with receiving and paying into the Bank of England the revenue for paying the debt annuities....
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 36 of England in Egypt, 26 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. It Is declared by some that this unfriendly sentiment towards the control was manufactured by Ismail himself, in order to afford him an excuse for retreating from his...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 37 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT, 27 sition and banishment of Ismail Pasha. This was brought about, with the approval and cooperation of Bismarck, by the influence of England and France. In his place his...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 38 of England in Egypt, 28 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. content became more apparent. The army was now honeycombed with disaffection. Its officers were ahnost to a man hostile to the control, and Tewfik was despised and detested...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 39 of England in Egypt, ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 29 and that ancient city was bombarded, almost destroyed, and taken from the insurgents. A fire broke out, which completed the destruction begun by the bombs of the Invincible...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886
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Image 40 of England in Egypt, 30 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. n. THE SUEZ CANAL. The successful construction of the Suez canal materially modified the politics of Europe, changed both the internal and the external status of Egypt, and...
- Contributor: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)
- Date: 1886