Identifier: cu31924028018574 (find matches)
Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rtakethe first purely naval operation for which it hadbeen called upon since the Russian war. This wasthe bombardment of Alexandria, 11th July 1882.Arabi Pasha, who headed the military revolt againstthe Khedive, was determined to drive the hatedforeigner from the country. The Suez Canal, thehighroad to our great Indian Empire, was threat-ened. Riots had broken out in Alexandria; manyEuropeans had been killed, hundreds were seekingshelter on the shipping in the harbour, and the townhad been handed over to pillage. A combined English and French fleet lay inthe outer roads, the senior British officer beingAdmiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, who flew hisflag in the Aleocandra, Noticing that Arabi washard at work strengthening the fortifications,erecting new batteries, and being constantlyreinforced by fresh troops of the mutinousEgyptian army, he sent in an ultimatum, that,unless work on the fortifications ceased, and thebatteries were for the time handed over to the THE LAUNCH OF A BATTLESHIP
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NAVY OF STEAM AND STEEL 263 force he was prepared to land, an immediatebombardment would follow. The French fleet,acting under orders from Paris, were not allowedto co-operate, and had, indeed, left the roadsteadbefore the delivery of the Admirals ultimatum.Arabi, paying no attention to the Admiralsdemand, the British fleet cleared for action, and bydaybreak of the 11th the ironclads had taken upthe positions assigned to them. The forts at Pharos, and the batteries andfortifications known as the Ras el Tin batteries,that lie on the spit of land that runs almost duenorth from the town and forms the harbour, wereopposed by the most powerful of the battleships,the Sultan, Alexandra, Superb, and Infleocible, Toattack the powerful Fort Mex and Fort Marsa, andthe heavy batteries that lie to the westward of thetown, the Admiral took in his lighter-draughtbattleships, the Monarch, Invincible, and Penelope,with in support of them the Temeraire, With thisdivision was the Admiral, who had shifte

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