. European history : an outline of its development. int interference of France and England in 1879 in the inter-est of the holders of the debt. There was much oppositionin the country, however, to this arrangement, and in 1882 aninsurrection broke out under Arabi Pasha. The Frenchgovernment sent orders to their fleet not to interfere, but theEnglish bombarded Alexandria and put down the that time England has had virtual possession of thecountry, though her position is not formally recognized by ,Par fit ion,Chap. XII. Africa nownearly alloccupied. A jointadmini
. European history : an outline of its development. int interference of France and England in 1879 in the inter-est of the holders of the debt. There was much oppositionin the country, however, to this arrangement, and in 1882 aninsurrection broke out under Arabi Pasha. The Frenchgovernment sent orders to their fleet not to interfere, but theEnglish bombarded Alexandria and put down the that time England has had virtual possession of thecountry, though her position is not formally recognized by ,Par fit ion,Chap. XII. Africa nownearly alloccupied. A jointadministra-tion byEngland ,Our Timesfrom 1880(Harper),Chap. VI. Englandalone. 5o6 Anglo-Saxon Expansion [§529 A Moham-medanrevival. the European powers. Her rule has been of the greatestbenefit to the population and is rapidly developing the re-sources of the State. 529. The Insurrection of the Mahdi. — At about the sametime with the insurrection of Arabi Pasha, the equatorial orupper Nile provinces of Egypt were swept by a flood of. Khartum McCarthy,Our Timesfrom 18S0,134 ff- fanatical Mohammedanism, a revival of primitive religiousenthusiasm led by the Mahdi, or the prophet. GeneralGordon attempted to check its advance at Khartum, but waskilled in 1885, and the Egyptian Soudan became indepen-dent. The early attempts of the English to recover posses-sion of the provinces were unsuccessful, and only in 1897did their real reoccupation begin, completed in the followingyear by the capture of Khartum. The reconquest of the Soudan was no doubt stimulated §530] The Anglo-Saxon Race 507 somewhat by the movements of the French towards theupper Nile from the western Soudan, which appeared tobe directed to the establishment of a connection betweenthe French possessions in West and those in East movements threatened the connection on their sidewhich the English had long been planning to bring aboutthrough the centre of Africa between the Cape Colony andEgypt.
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