Political Complications; Arabi Pasha; Important Events Preceding
the Bombardment; England Demands that Work on the Fortifications
Cease; Arabi Promises to Desist, but Renews the Work Secretly; A
Powerful English Fleet Opens Fire on the Defences; Silenced by
the Fleet and Abandoned; Alexandria Set on Fire and Pillaged;
Sailors and Marines from the American and German Fleets Landed to
Protect the Consulates; Injury Sustained by the English Fleet. I-458