Identifier: navalbattlesanci00ship (find matches)
Title: Naval battles, ancient and modern
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Shippen, Edward, 1826-1911
Subjects: Naval battles
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) J.C. McCurdy & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the British army in Egypt. The Egyptian leader, Arabi Pasha, has been tried, and the tribunal, while sparing his life, sentenced him to be banished to Ceylon, where he is now. Nothing definite was made public, however, as to the assurances of support and sympathy which he is supposed to have had, not only from the Sublime Porte, but from other nations. Egyptian politics may be symbolized by a tangled skein which time alone can unravel. Some day it may beknown whether the ostensible reasons brought a great calamity about, or whether secret and less worthy motives caused the action of the British ministry, and controlled their fleet and army. In the summer of 1882 Arab! Pasha, who had complete control of the military force of Egypt, although the Khedive had not been formally deposed, was strengthening the forts about Alexandria, and increasing their armament. As he was opposed to English or any foreign control In Egypt, England naturally felt alarm for the safety of the Suez Canal, which is so vitally
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Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 Section of the Alexandra showing working of guns BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. 711 . Important for her communications with her great Eastern empire, as well as for her general commerce. Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, with a powerful squadron of the largest Ironclads and a number of gun-boats, had been ordered to Alexandria, In observation. The city of Alexandria, named from its founder, Alexander the Great, has experienced many vicissitudes. The modern city Is built on a peninsula, which was formerly the Island of Pharos, and on the isthmus connecting it with the mainland. The ancient city was on the main-land, where its ruins cover a vast extent of surface. Founded nearly three and a half centuries before the Christian era, It rose, under the liberal and beneficent sway of the Ptolemies, to great eminence as a seat of learning, as well as of commerce. Under the Roman Empire it continued to be a very splendid and influential city, second only to Rome herself, and engrossing the lucrative traffic with India. Its library was one of the wonders of th

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