The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir, 1882

Oil on canvas, signed lower left 'Henry F W Ganz', by Henry Francis William Ganz (1863-1947), 1890 (c).

A composite regiment of Household Cavalry and the 7th Dragoon Guards charges Egyptian forces.

Tel-el-Kebir lies at a strategic point on the railway between Ismailia and Cairo. On 13 September 1882 it was the scene of the final, decisive action of the Egyptian War (1882), fought between the British (then joint rulers of Egypt, with France) and Arabi Pasha, an Egyptian Army officer and leader of the revolt against foreign rule.