Alexandria: A History and a Guide

by E. M. Forster

English Church: p. [102].

Fort Kom-el-Dik: p. [106].

Fort Cafarelli: p. [170].

Pompey’s Pillar: p. [144].

Public Gardens: p. [154].

Villa Antoniadis: p. [157].

Mex: p. [171].

Ramleh: p. [166].

THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (1882).

Thus the city develops quietly under Mohammed Ali and his successors—one of whom, Said Pasha, is buried here. Attention was rather diverted from her by the cutting of the Suez Canal, and it is not until 1882 that anything of note occurs. She is in this year connected with the rebellion of Arabi, the founder of the Egyptian Nationalist Party. Arabi, then Minister of War, was endeavouring to dominate the Khedive Tewfik, and to secure Egypt for the Egyptians. Alexandria, which had held a foreign element ever since its foundation, was therefore his natural foe, and it was here that he opened the campaign against Europe that ended in his failure at Tel-el-Kebir. The details—like Arabi’s motives—are complicated. But four stages may be observed.