Young People's History of the World for One Hundred Years ..
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The result was a revolution that drove Ismail Pasha from his throne. As the British still held control, a revolt broke out among the people headed by an ambitious leader named Arabi Pas-ha, and Alexandria was seized, the British being driven out and many of them killed. Much as Gladstone deprecated war, he felt himself forced into it. John Bright, to whom war was a crime that nothing could warrant, resigned from the cabi^ net, but the Government acted vigorously, the British fleet being ordered... to bombard Alexandria. This was done effectively. The city, half reduced to ashes, was occupied by the British, Arabi and his army withdrawing in haste Soon afterwards he was defeated by me ntof Alex- General Wolseley and the insurrection was at an end. Egypt andria and remained a vassal of Great Britain. An unfortunate sequel Gordon^ to this may be briefly stated. A formidable insurrection broke out in the Soudan, under El Mahdi, a Mohammedan fanatic, who captured the city of Khartoum and murdered the famous General Gordon.
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