War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . KRONSTAD, SECOND IMPORTANT TOWN IN ORANGE FREE A BOER AND HIS TEN SONS EQUIPPED FOR FIELD SERVICE. THE LAND OF EGYPT. 161 century, when the Ottoman Empire was hard pressed by Russia andAustria, Egypt again fell under the sway of the Mamelukes, who con-tinued in power until the French invasion of Egypt in 1798, underNapoleon Bonaparte, who hoped to destroy British trade in theMediterranean. When the Fre
War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . KRONSTAD, SECOND IMPORTANT TOWN IN ORANGE FREE A BOER AND HIS TEN SONS EQUIPPED FOR FIELD SERVICE. THE LAND OF EGYPT. 161 century, when the Ottoman Empire was hard pressed by Russia andAustria, Egypt again fell under the sway of the Mamelukes, who con-tinued in power until the French invasion of Egypt in 1798, underNapoleon Bonaparte, who hoped to destroy British trade in theMediterranean. When the French capitulated at Cairo and Alex-andria to the British, their evacuation of Egypt followed, and Mo-hammed Alee (or Ali) Bey, the Turkish commander, or Pasha of Egypt,put an effectual damper on the Mamelukes by murdering all their lead-ers. Finally Mohammed became so powerful that he defied the Turk-ish Government and, on the plains of Nizeeb in Syria, gained such adecisive victory over the Turks that he obtained a treaty confirmingto Mohammed Alee the Viceroyalty of Egypt, as a fief of the OttomanEmpire, hereditary in his family. Ismail Pasha, the fourth successor of Mohammed Alee, was edu-cated in France and did much to found manuf
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