Tel-el-kebir

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 110

Tel-el-kebir, midway on the railway between Ismailia and Cairo, was the scene on the morning of 13th September 1882 of the capture by Sir Garnet Wolseley of Arabi Pasha's entrenched camp, defended by 26,000 men. The British loss was about 430 killed and wounded, the Egyptians' 1500.

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