Identifier: europesince00haze (find matches)
Title: Europe since 1815
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hazen, Charles Downer, 1868-
Subjects: Europe -- History 1789-1900
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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i GORDON AND THE SOUDAN 661 These two utterances described the anomalous position Theof England in Egypt in 1883, and they still describe it. EnglishA British force still remains in Egypt, the occupation ^.^^ „continues, advice is compulsory. England has often beenasked when she intends to keep her promise. No answer hasbeen given. She is ruler in fact, not in law. The DualControl ended in 1883, and England began in earnest theprocess of reconstruction and reform which has been pro-ceeding ever since under the real guidance of Lord Cromer,the British Consul-General in Egypt.^ In intervening in Egypt in 1882, England became imme-diately involved in a further enterprise which ended in disasterand humiliation. Egypt possessed a dependency to thesouth, the Soudan, a vast region comprising chiefly the basinof the Upper Nile, a poorly organized territory with avaried, semi-civilized, nomadic population, and a capitalat Khartoum. This province, long oppressed by Egypt,was in full process o

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