- Kafr-el-Dawwar Battle
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Kafr-el-Dawwar
partof=Anglo-Egyptian War
caption=Photograph of HMS Alexandra
date=1882
place=nearAlexandria ,Egypt
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territory=
result=Egyptian Army victory
combatant1=Great Britain
combatant2=Egypt
commander1=Sir Archibald Alison , Bart. (1826-1907)
commander2=Ahmed Urabi Mahmoud Fehmy
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casualties2=Kafr-el-Dawwar is a city nearAlexandria where a famous battle took place between an Egyptian army, headed byAhmed Orabi , and British forces headed bySir Archibald Alison , Bart. (1826-1907). Orabi forces was able to stop the British from advancing towardCairo for five weeks.After this British forces shifted to the Suez canal to reach Cairo.The works at Kafr Douar seen after surender were found to be exceptionally strong, with successive lines of ditches and embankments, covered walkways, gun positions, redoubts and embrasures, well stocked with modern Krupp artillery and arms and ammunition of all kinds. Held by determined defenders, they would have been extremely difficult to take. [ [http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20061016150347 Kafr el Dawwar surrender] ]
References
External links
* [http://mountainbunker.org/~maxwell/tei/index-div1-id2413277.html Urabi fortifications at Kafr ed-Dawâr seen on 1885 ]
* [http://www.marxists.org/subject/arab-world/lutsky/ch17.htm The British attempt to break through at Kafr Ed-Dawar ended in failure]
* [http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=wood&book=battles&story=kassassin Urabi revolution & battle at Kafr Dowar] ----see also
*Battle of Tel el-Kebir
*Kafr el-Dawwar
*1882 Anglo-Egyptian War
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