2-716-570 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Rebellion of Arabi Pasha in Egypt, 1882: The Charge at the Battle of Kassassin', (1901). On 10 September 1882, an Egyptian army led by Ahmed Urabi attacked British troops at Kassassin, a village in Lower Egypt, in order to recapture the Suez Canal, which had been seized by the British. The Household Cavalry composite regiment charged the Egyptian infantry who abandoned their guns. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]