The Contemporary Review, Vol. 46: July-December, 1884 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Contemporary Review, Vol. 46: July-December, 1884

Such was the Egyptian question at the beginning, and it has never lost the character it then acquired. Egyptwas conceived both by English and French statesmen to have an importance altogether distinct from commercial considerations. It was regarded as a possible base of operations for hostile enterprises in the East. The nation which managed to get possession of it would be half-way on the road to India. Transports or ships of war starting from the ports of the Red Sea would be able to reach Bombay before the fleet sent to encounter them had doubled the Cape Circumstances have so changed that these ideas seem ridiculous, but it should be remembered that France once fought with na in India on equal terms, and that at one time it seemed doubtful on which side the balance would incline. When Napoleon landed 1n Egypt, only a tew years had passed since the appearance of a French emissary in India had given the signal for a war which raged from Bohilcund to the Carnatic. The intelligence that war was declared between France and England, on the strength of which Warren Hating! Determined to forestall his adversary, reached him from the British Consul at Cairo. The importance of Egypt as afl'ording a means of quicker communication with India first dawned upon na with the establishment of the overland route. The construction of a railway to Suez, and the project of cutting a canal through the isthmus, brought commercial interests still more prominently into the foreground. There need have been no international rivalry 111 the canal; but the rivalry already existed, and was at once associated with the new enterprise. Thenceforth the political question and the commercial question became one, and a higher premium than M was put upon the acquisition of a preponderating influence in Egypt.

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