Identifier: cassellshistoryo00gran (find matches)
Title: Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Grant, James, 1822-1887
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Publisher: London Cassel
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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okedupon our army as a kind of militarypolice, sent by the Sultan to enforceorder and restore the Khedive. They thought that what we deemedthe crowning victory at Tel-el-Kebirwas only the peaceable and voluntarysubmission of Arabi Pasha and hisgenerals, and this view, or construction,of the state of events, was sedulouslypropagated by the Ulema, to hide theii*own defeat. On the 2nd of October the Khedivegave a dinner to Sir Garnet Wolseley,the Dukes of Conn aught and Teck, allthe Generals and their Staffs, AdmiralHoskins, and Sir E. Malet. They woreuniforms and decorations, and BakerPasha appeared in the dress of a TurkishGeneral. Afterwards a magnificentgarden fe/e was largely attended by theofficers of both services and by civilians.The Ghczireh Gardens were brilliantlyilluminated by the electric light, which,however, was thro^\Ti into the shade by2,000 rockets, while the bands playedBritish and Arab music. The royalparty withdrew at midnight after Godsave the Queen had been played.
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54 CHAPTER VI. THE TRIAL OF ARABI. The Soudan Expeditionary Force—The Indictment of Ai-abi—Preliminary Examination of Witnesses—Counsefappointed—Mr. Broadleys Description of Arabi—Insults offered to him—The Trial and Sentence—Grievances of the Army of Occupation—A Scottish Festival—Sir Archibald Alison and the HighlandBrigade—Donald Cameron—Execution of Suleiman. The fate of Arabi Pasha was decidedin the face of our Army of Occupation. All was quiet in Egypt, and theexpeditionary force, which was after-wards dispatched to the Soudan, inconsequence of the hostile measures ofMohammed Achmet Shemseddin, theMahdi, or false prophet, was beingorganised; and though negotiations forthe definite settlement of the Upperand Lower Provinces were in progress,the propositions with which the Earlof Dufferin was accredited were kept aprofound secret. Major the Hon. John Colborne, aCrimean officer of the 77th, or old EastMiddlesex Regiment, was appointed tothe expeditionary Souda

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