In July 1882, 1 1, the British fleet shelled Alexandria. The sub-fleet includes 8 armored ships, 5 gunboats and 1 destroyers, equipped with 69 large-caliber naval guns, 88 small-caliber naval guns and 70 "mitra Jos" guns, with a total strength of 5,700.

At that time, the Egyptian garrison in Alexandria had only 7,500 poorly trained soldiers, and the fortifications were rudimentary. After fierce fighting, Egypt suffered 2000 casualties. Since then, 25,000 British troops have landed and occupied the seaport and carried out large-scale looting.

In the face of the British invasion, the Motherland Party immediately published a letter to the people, announcing that "there is an irreconcilable war between the Egyptian nation and the British" and promising to cancel the debts owed by farmers to foreigners.

In response to this call, farmers actively joined the army and held anti-aggression demonstrations in Cairo and other cities. Under the leadership of Arabi, the Egyptian military and civilians focused on strengthening the defense line in northern Cairo.

1882 On July 28th, the Egyptian army defeated the British in the battle in Dauar village. In the next three weeks, the Egyptian army repelled the enemy's attack several times in a row, making it impossible for the British to invade Cairo from the north.

However, Araby and others made a strategic mistake. They only strengthened the defense line in the north of Cairo, but paid insufficient attention to the defense of the eastern line. This is because they believe that western countries will abide by the guarantee of neutrality in the Suez Canal Zone.

As a result, the British army decided to attack Cairo on the Suez Canal.

1882 In August, a large number of British troops landed in the Canal Zone, occupied important places such as Port Said on the 20th, and then launched an attack on Cairo.

Near Taylor kabir, near Cairo, the two sides fought a decisive battle. Egyptian soldiers and civilians fought bravely and held their ground for two weeks.

However, the British army changed its strategy and bribed some feudal nobles of nomadic tribes, especially Bedouin chiefs, who had all participated in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Results On September 13, the British army broke through the eastern defense line, and the Egyptian army was forced to retreat to Cairo.

Arrabi tried to use the natural barrier of the Nile to resist the enemy and decided to launch100000 soldiers and civilians in Cairo to defend the capital. However, the bureaucratic landlords and some officers in Cairo wavered and rebelled, and used Arabi's orders to build a defense line in the suburbs, open the door and lead the enemy into the city.

1882 September 15 The capital fell. Patriotic generals such as Arabi were captured and a large number of soldiers and civilians were slaughtered. After the British captured Cairo, they quickly occupied the whole of Egypt, and the war ended in Egypt's failure. The end of the Anglo-Egyptian War marked the further decline of Egypt from a semi-colony to a British colony.

After Britain occupied Egypt, it was worried that France and Russia would carve up other territories of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and harm its colonial interests in the Middle East and the Near East. On the one hand, they declared that the occupation of Egypt was "temporary" and that once order was restored, the British army would retreat. On the other hand, it sent an agent to negotiate in the name of Consul General.

In fact, the British Consul General in Egypt, Beling, was the dictator of Egypt and the spokesman of British colonial rule.

He ruled Egypt for 25 years (1883- 1907), wantonly destroyed Egypt's national industry, rewarded foreign investment, mainly British investment, implemented a single crop planting system, expanded cotton planting area, and made Egypt the raw material producing area of British cotton textile industry.

Egypt's national economy depends entirely on international capitalism, and Egypt has become the place where Britain exports goods and capital.

After the outbreak of World War I, Britain officially declared Egypt as its protectorate.