Maritime Interest.- Suez Canal, Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882

Maritime Interest.-

An interesting group of secretarial transcriptions of telegrams and letters mostly addressed to the Spanish Ministry of the Navy, reporting on the circulation in the Suez Canal, the British military intervention and conquest of Egypt in 1882 (the landing at Ismalia, the French choice to stay neutral, the battles of Kassassin and Tell El Kebir, the British capture of Cairo and capture Ahmed Urabi) and the presence of the Spanish frigates Zaragoza and Carmén in Egypt to protect Spanish access to the Suez Canal; some handling wear, v.s. Malta and Port Said, June-December 1882 (qty)

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