Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch Army Headquarters India

EGYPT* is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean on the west by the Great Desert and on the east by a line drawn from Rafa to Akaba the gulf of Akaba and the Red Sea. [...] The 22nd parallel of north latitude is the southern boundary of Egypt proper but to the south of this the provinces of the Sudan extend almost to the equator. [...] strategical value of the country landed in Egypt on the 1st July 1798 with the avowed intention of chastising the Mameluke Beys and restoring the country to the Turks. [...] In this year the extravagance of the Khedive Ismail Pasha had brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy and the unfortunate inhabitants N$ were the victims of an extortionateEGYPT AND THE SUDAN. [...] The British Government now decided that Egypt should be garrisoned until the end of the war by 6 000 of General Hutchinson's army and the whole of the Indian Contingent the combined force to be under the command of Lord Cavan.