Urabi revolt

ʻUrabi revolt
	; Portrayal of the revolt by The Illustrated London News
Date	1879–1882
Location	Egypt
Result	Revolt suppressed Urabi exiled; British intervention in Egypt;
Belligerents
Khedivate of Egypt; United Kingdom India;	ʻUrabi forces
Commanders and leaders
Tewfik Pasha; Garnet Wolseley; Beauchamp Seymour	Ahmed ʻUrabi; Mahmoud Fehmy; Mahmoud el-Baroudi
Strength
36,000 (1879); 40,560 (1882)	11,300 regulars; 50,000 reservists and irregular troops[1];

Ahmed Urabi was originally from a rural village in the Nile Delta. However, he rose to become a military officer later. He was quite popular amongst the rural population in Egypt.[2]

References

Featherstone, Donald (1993). Tel El-Kebir 1882. Osprey Publishing. pp. 40–41.
Huffaker, S. (2012). Representations of Ahmed Urabi: Hegemony, Imperialism, and the British Press, 1881–1882. Victorian Periodicals Review 45(4), 375-405. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2012.0035.

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[1] Featherstone, Donald (1993). Tel El-Kebir 1882. Osprey Publishing. pp. 40–41.

[2] Huffaker, S. (2012). Representations of Ahmed Urabi: Hegemony, Imperialism, and the British Press, 1881–1882. Victorian Periodicals Review 45(4), 375-405. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2012.0035.