Identifier: storyofgreatestn01elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-^ ^ Egypt—Chronology 141 are repulsed. 1266—The Mameluke soldiers seize possession of the governmentand appoint sultans oi their own. 1517—Defeat of the Mamelukes by SultanSelim I., who adds Eg)T)t to the Turkish empire. 1770—Ali Bey, a Mameluke,rules Eg)^t, Arabia, and Syria. 1798—Eg>pt is invaded by the French,under Napoleon Bonaparte. 1801—Expulsion of the French by the Englishand Turks. 1806—Mehemet Ali made Pasha. 1807—The English defeatedin an attempt to occupy Rosetta. 1811—Massacre of the Mamelukes at Cairoby Mehemet Ah. 1814—The Turkish army in Egv-pt is remodelled. 1820.—Alexandria connected with the Nile by the IMahmoud canal. 1829 —Thefirst Egyptian newspaper pubhshed. 1831—Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt,revolts from Turkey and invades Syria. 1834—Eg>pt visited by cholera.1835—The plague ravages the country. 1839—Mehemet Ah again revolts,and claims hereditary possession of Egypt and Syria. i840^The Egyptiansdefeated by the British at Bey

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