The British and Egypt in the 1890s
The British and Egypt in the 1890s

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with British foreign policy and the Egyptian affairs in the 1890s. The British accupation in Egypt became permanent at the end of the 1880s and the internal political situation started to become complicated. In January 1892 the Khedive Tawfig died and his Anglophobe son Abbas II Hilmi succeded to the throne. Next two years, the British Consul-General in Cairo, Lord Cromer got into trouble with the young Khedive over the appointment of Prime Ministers and duties of the British officers in the Egyptian Army and officials in the administration. The so-called Denshawai Incident is considered to be a turning point of Lord Cromer's era because the Egyptian national movement gained the support of British public opinion and this Incident hastened his departure from Egypt.

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