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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | A H McMahon; F R Wingate, Sir; Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Allenby, Viscount; Selwyn Lloyd |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Long |
| ISBN: | 0415350336 9780415350334 |
| OCLC Number: | 55658018 |
| Description: | xiii, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I. McMahon, January 1915-23 December 1916 -- 1. Let everything slide : surprise appointment -- 2. Treated in a disgusting way : surprise dismissal -- Pt. II. Wingate, December 1916-January 1919 -- 3. All this rush of war work : Wingate of the Sudan -- 4. Fullest confidence in you : the Comorra -- 5. Not perhaps a very clever man : the misfit -- 6. There seems some faulty staff work here : the nationalists -- 7. I can do no more than thank you : the fall -- 8. Unequipped personally : the verdict -- Pt. III. Allenby, 25 March 1919-14 June 1925 -- 9. A man of no principles : the release and rearrest of Zaghlul -- 10. Treated very scurvily : the fall of cat and mouse -- Pt. IV. Lloyd, 21 October 1925-23 July 1929 |
| Series Title: | RoutledgeCurzon studies in Middle Eastern history, 3. |
| Other Titles: | British proconsuls in Egypt, 1914-1929 |
| Responsibility: | C.W.R. Long. |
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Abstract:
The story of four proconsuls (McMahon, Wingate, Allenby and Lloyd), their principal opponent, Sa'ad Zaghul, and the great events of the time - the rise of the WAFD party, the uprising of 1919, the murder of Sir Lee Stack and the Allenby ultimatum.
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- Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936 -- Biography.
- McMahon, A. H.
- Wingate, F. R. -- (Francis Reginald), -- Sir, -- 1861-1953.
- Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, -- Viscount, -- 1861-1936.
- Lloyd, Selwyn, -- 1904-1978.
- Colonial administrators -- Egypt -- Biography.
