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Auction: 15037 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 51

Documents
King George V as Prince of Wales
1901 (3 July) autograph letter on H.M.S. 'Ophir' mourning paper, addressed to His Highness The Khedive in Alexandria. The letter includes, " ... how touched I am to know that you more willing to grant my request on behalf of Ahmed Arabi & Aly Fehmy, for the sake of your personal feelings of friendship, towards myself.", and is signed "George". With the original envelope from Adelaide bearing one 4d. Official stamp (two others removed). Photo

Colonel Ahmed ‘Urabi (1841-1911), widely known in English as Ahmad Arabi or Arabi Pasha, was a nationalist Egyptian and an officer of the Egyptian army. The first political and military leader in Egypt to rise from the fellahin, ‘Urabi participated in a 1879 mutiny that developed into a general revolt against the Anglo-French dominated administration of Khedive Tewfik. He was promoted to Tewfik's cabinet and began reforms of Egypt's military and civil administrations, but the demonstrations in Alexandria of 1882 prompted a British bombardment and invasion that deposed ‘Urabi and his allies in favor of a British occupation.

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