What the records say
- When
- 13 Sep 1882
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 30.67° N, 31.93° E
- Description
- 1882 battle
Battle of Tell El Kebir
Battle between Egyptian army and British military (1882)
The Battle of Tel El Kebir, fought on 13 September 1882 at Tell El Kebir in Egypt, 110 km north-north-east of Cairo, proved the decisive engagement of the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. A British army led by Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley approached under cover of darkness and defeated an entrenched Egyptian force under the command of Ahmed ʻUrabi in a sudden assault.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht von Tel-el-Kebir in Ägypten besiegt eine britische Armee unter Garnet Joseph Wolseley die Armee Urabi Paschas und beendet damit die…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les troupes nationalistes d’Arabi Pacha sont battues par les Britanniques à Tell el-Kébir”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “انهزام احمد عرابي في معركة التل الكبير وبداية الاحتلال الإنجليزي لمصر الذي دام 72 سنة”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page