This battle scene by the French military painter de Neuville depicts the
crucial moment in a hard campaign undertaken to crush a rebellion among
the Egyptians. In the gray dawn of September 13, 1882, a British force
with bayonets fixed stormed the entrenched natives; and in a few minutes
hard fighting decided the supremacy of Great Britain in Egypt.
[Napoleon’s Retreat from Russia. Jan V. Chelminski, 1851-]