Scramble for Africa 4: Britain Takes Egypt with Finance (and War), 1882
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
October 11, 20211h 42m
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Show Notes
In 1882 at the battle of Tel el Kabir, Garnet Wolesley (who had suppressed the Riel Resistance in 1870) defeated the Egyptian nationalists led by al-Arabi. This was the final blow in a long imperialist campaign to take Egypt from the ambitious modernizers that had ruled it from the 1820s. The epic financial swindle involved … <a href="https://podur.org/2021/10/11/scramble-for-africa-4-britain-takes-egypt-with-finance-and-war-1882/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Scramble for Africa 4: Britain Takes Egypt with Finance (and War), 1882"</span></a>