Thanks for another great presentation. My great grandfather fought within the highland brigade as part of the The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He and his regiment had been brought from Gibraltar sailing on HMS Orontes to the Egyptian port of Ramleh. ( that ship was the one used in 1879 to bring the Prince Imperial’s body back from the Zulu wars). From there he was transferred onto the S.S. Lusitania before disembarking for the march in the desert. After this battle he indeed went to Cairo and was stationed there until shipping back to Scotland in September 1884 and like many soldiers was awarded the Egypt campaign medal and the Khedive's Star. Keep the videos coming.
Interesting info Alan, thanks. Just wondering, do your g-grandad's medals still exist? I'd reckon they'd be quite rare, and worth a bit to collectors, not that I'd ever sell any of my people's medals.
@@warrenmilford6848 my great grandfather was buried in Inverness in 1931. His medals passed to my grandfather. He and his three brothers all fought in WW1. His Great War medals including the Military Medal and the Egyptian medals he had in his possession were passed to my father and now me. I also have my other great grandfathers Boer war medal with a whole chunk of campaign and battle clasps. With the addition of all their papers everything will be passed on to my son.
@@monochromebluess That's great news, and what a great collection of family history you have. I have my grandad's medals. He lied about his age and served with the Australian Lighthorse in Palestine and Syria in WW1, then in WW2, he joined the R.A.A.F and served in New Guinea. I also have a great uncles medals who was killed in WW1, and is buried in France. Unfortunately, my other grandads WW1 medals were lost in a bad flood in the '50's, as were tragically his brothers medals, who served in the 2nd Lighthorse Regiment, but who was killed at Gallipoli. The medals I do have will also be passed on.
Another excellent, informative video. I had a 3x Great uncle at Tel el Kabir with the 1st Seaforth, so really good to see his service brought to life a little. How a lad from south west Wales ended up with the Seaforths though is probably a much longer story!
Well done Chris! Very detailed. Glorious is not how I would describe this win and there is no glory in war. I have read online this battle was the best performance of Wolseley's career. His talent as an officer was recognized early in his career and developed over the years. It is known that his reputation for efficiency led to the phrase "Everything is all Sir Garnet" or simply "All is in order". Here is something interesting to think about. The army Britain dispatched to Egypt by Napoleonic standards was the size of a full strength army corps and Wolseley was a full general at the time of the battle which from what I can deduce from previous research was at the time corps level command in the British Army. On one of the previous occasions I looked him up, when he was fighting in the Indian Rebellion, Wolseley had racist views of the Indians. Knowing this, it is surprising yet nice to know that Wolseley seemed to tolerate Indian soldiers being in the army and taking part in the battle. The funny thing is, for the expedition, the British sent the finest army they could field to fight the campaign yet in letters he wrote to the army commander-in-chief the Duke of Cambridge, Wosleley urged him to look into recruiting reforms as he noticed during the battle that the soldiers under his command were not of the best quality. In a way, it was pathetic that Britain's army at the time was really the size of an army corps. As for the campaign as a whole and Tel-el-Kebir, the British Army, whose training was sitting on it's laurels and fighting just colonial wars and suppressing rebellions, fighting an army that had a European trained officer corps, under Wolseley's leadership it did a great job. Thank you Chris for providing that colorized photo of the battle's aftermath, it made it look clearer. Whenever I have thought of Wolseley lately, I like to think of him not as a fighter but a master logistician and strategist but this battle shows he was as good of a tactical commander who made sure he strategy was followed as he had planned it. Hey Chris, a couple things I wanted to ask of you. In my research of the BEF of 1914, I have figured out that a battalion numbers 1,000 men. Whenever I hear a unit's name in a video or in research, I assumed it was a regiment's name. Is that the case or does the name refer to the battalion? Also, besides Maiwand, would you be willing to do a video on General Sir Frederick Robert's 320 mile march to Kandahar and the subsequent battle?
Sir I am running out of superlatives. As usual your presentation was riveting. From the start to the end of narrative the presentation was and is first rate. Thank you for bringing a bit of joy to an elderly gentlemen.
It was interesting that Wolseley predicted the location and outcome of his victory over the forces of Urabi Pasha at Tel El Kebir. Like Wellington had done at Waterloo he must have studied the ground before his departure from England. The indicates an unusual preparedness for which he was apparently renowned.
@@paulhomsy2751 Yes. Sadly, that is the nature of Empire, human nature writ on a grand scale. The Union Jack justly earned the soubriquet: "The Butcher's Apron". We have however reached the end of the Age of Empires. The present imperialists, the globalists, are in retreat. What comes next will be much better.😊
I loved this! The 1882 Egyptian campaign is one I've always craved to know more about because the material that I have isn't very in-depth. Great detail. Great maps. Great compilation of paintings and GREAT enthusiasm!. Looking forward to your Kassassin video. THANK YOU and cheers, again, from Montreal!
Another cracking yarn Chris told with your usual enthusiasm, gusto and huzzah, the only thing i would add, sound effects ?? This one also struck a nostalgic nerve as one time, around 1990, i flew from heathrow to visit Dad in his home of Zimbabwe, Dad was a scotch drinker and the local '100 pipers' brand barely fell into the scotch whiskey category. So at duty free i bought Dad a single malt, what caught my eye was the tin it came in, it was some homage to the black watch brigade, those victorian era paintings of famous battles, one was a boer war battle, terrific, but one of the others was yes, that image you showed of the battle of Tel el Kebir. In fact when your video showed up in my feed, i kinda knew instinctively, that was on the scotch whiskey tin. Dad loved the single malt and indeed the presentation tin it came in, my love of british military history came from Dad. Thanks Chris for the lovely memory, they really come from all directions dont they ?
In my much younger days, I had, or thought I had, a serious dislike for History. I’m retired now, and have discovered a serious interest in Military History - and have been deeply fascinated by the various stratagems of wartime achievements and failures. I very much appreciate this series of lectures, and thank you! If only the history classes of my youth had been so well presented! Thank you once again!
That was a really interesting recount of the battle. My great-great-grandfather fought at the battle with the Royal Irish despite being from Wednesday in the West Midlands. While I knew he was at the battle having obtained his military papers and seen the Khadiva Star he received I didn't know how the battle played out. Many thanks for filling in that information .
My grandfather was at Tel-el - Kebir , a colour sgt in the Cameron Highlanders. I am the last of his 19 grandchildren .I have never been able to trace his medals including the Khedive’s Star. Thank you for the history of this battle.
Hey could you talk about the Ottoman Saudi war of 1814 or the Egyptian ottoman wars like the 1839-40 war, they're seldom mentioned by anyone, or perhaps French colonial wars in North Africa like Algeria
Hey Chris, i'm deeply impressed say thx again..if I ever knew that it was 😮forgotten...This commander was just a British genius, rare in that ranks, with respect, we had them too..Be blessed. Ludwig
Excellent history. I can't thank you enough for covering this campaign as an Egyptian myself. This is very fascinating for me. The economic mismanagement of the ruling elite of 19th century Egypt was extreme, and I always wondered if they choose to befriend Britain ( the true sea power in the Mediterranean ) instead of France, how different history could have played out.
Thanks for this. Lived in an old part of Sunderland with a street named after this battle. Great to hear the detail. Will do some research about General Havelock, understand his family was local to me as well and he was part of the Egyptian/Sudan campaigns.
November 11 is Veterans Day in the United States, a day we honor our military vets, past and present. I can't think of a better day to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of every man and woman who has worn their nation's uniform.
Just for your info, this day is also celebrated in Britain, and it's ex-empire countries, as well as France and Belgium. The date marks the day of the official end of WW1. It's also used to honour Veterans past and present, in these countries as well, and is called Armistice Day.
@@cyndialver2130 Please forgive me. I didn't read the last part of your comment properly and weirdly took the, 'their nation's' part as 'our nation's'. I just presumed you thought it was an American only day of acknowledgement, and yes, your comment was very respectful to all those who've served their nations.
Great content as we've have become used to. Whilst at work today another person, whom you may like to cover is Charles Upham VC and Bar.. Cheers THC have a great weekend, back to bully the shoes for Sunday.
A really good watch and very interesting. A little side note for you. I am ex-Royal Artillery and was in my (rather successful I must say!) regimental shooting team in the late 70s. I took part in an old established shooting competition at Bisley against the Royal Engineers, for the ‘Broken Wheel’ trophy! I don’t know for sure, but would like to think it relates back somehow to the broken wheel you spoke of in this video? Btw, I was presented with an ‘Artillery VIII’ tie for taking part, even though we were a team of 6! Isn’t British military tradition just the best!
In my third book I wrote all about the revolution of urabi and the way the British fought against him my editor refused to published saying that truth is dangerous
Very clear and easy to understand, just a small request please; if you can spare the time/effort to do a video on the British landing at Basra during WW1 and the subsequent events that lead up to the debacle at the Battle of Kut I would really appreciate it. Thanks
Yes I will add to my (never-ending) list. There are so many forgotten stories from WW1, especially in the Middle East. A man from my village in Cheshire died leading a camel corps charge in the Sinai - that's a long way from the green fields of Cheshire.
@@TheHistoryChap Lol no rush; I’ve read several accounts of the battle already but just curious to hear verbally, and visually, someone else’s informed analysis. My grandfather was at the fight during the British landing at Basra and later at the battle of Kut, he was a captain in the Ottoman army-my father was very old (born in 1916) and unfortunately when I was old enough to understand these things he passed away without really imparting much
Really interesting, thank you. On the graves at Kassasin war cemetery, the cavalry charge is referenced as the "Midnight charge". I laid some flowers there at the centenary. I worked and lived there in the 1980's. Lt Henry Chomley Gribble is one of the British casualties buried there.
When I was a boy there was a dairy company in the locality of Dun Laoghaire, the town where I lived, a few miles south of Dublin in Ireland. It was called TEK Dairy. Locally it was called Tele Kyber Dairy. subsequently learned that the dairy was founded by a man by the name of Sutton who had fought in the famous battle. Though why he chose to give it the same name I have yet to learn. Interestingly, Tel el Kebir is arabic and translates into English as tel (hill) el (the) kebir (big) the big hill.
@@TheHistoryChap Isn't it just? And look at the fascinating stories that your excellent video provoked from others who commented here about ancestors who fought in the battle. It's wonderful to see that link through to the present day.
I’d heard of The Battle of Tel El Kebir and General Wolseley, but I’ve got to admit I didn’t have a clue when it was or who the British were fighting at the time :/ Thanks for filling in the blanks :)
I thought many British cavalry units were outfitted with lances after the Napoleonic Wars, yet the picture depict them charging with swords. Were those not the units with lances?
Now I know at least one battle my great great grandfather was in. He was with the 2nd Brigade in the York and Lancaster Regiment of Foot. Pvt Philip Clement
What a nice and clear description of the order of battle! I am hoping the the General McPherson on the left flank, was Herbert Taylor MacPherson VC? If so, it turns out that he was my 1st cousin 4 x removed. Loving your videos, particularly the ones within the South African context.
Hey Chris , On Speaking of Zulus, how is it that the Zulus never adapted the use of the horse into their Army? It seems odd that horses never made it into their society?
Thank you Chris, my Great Great Uncle Corporal David Hynd of the 72nd Highlanders (renamed the Seafords), drowned some time before the main battle. His unit did a gorilla attack behind enemy lines. He volunteered to swim across sweet-water cannel, in-order to steel a boat, so the rest of his unite could cross. David Drowned, however the rest of his unite completed there mission by destroying some of the enemies animations. I have his War Metals. David's death was reported in the London Times the day after his death, spelt Hind)! It turns out there was a Telegraph between London and Cairo. David is burred in one of the unmarked graves. The English pay maintenance for there upkeep.
"The Four Feathers" takes place in the Sudan so this is a different (& earlier) campaign. However, the uniforms, etc. in the 2002 film version are the closest representation, in movies, of what the troops would've looked like at this battle.
One of my Great Grandfathers was wounded in an arm in theis war and awarded the Khedive Star on recommendation to the Egyptian Khedive, Tewfik Pasha, by the Ottoman Sultan.
The first Action for the newly formed York & Lancaster Regiment, possibly the first Action for my great grandfather, who was named as one of the last six living survivors of the Y&L in a Sheffield newspaper of 1946.
Great video, the thought of waves of highlanders charging towards you is frightening, in my humble opinion our British forces throughout time are without question the best armed forces in the world, the standard by other nations forces are judged, even if at times it was said of our British forces were Lions lead by Donkeys. 😁👍👍👍👊✌️🇬🇧.
How do 22 British soldiers go "missing" from a 1-hour battle? I don't understand. I get why there were missing in WW1 and WW2 as an artillery shell could hit a bunker and bury them all alive or hit a soldier directly and blow his body in to a million pieces, but I don't get why it happened here as the entire battle took place within the Egyptians own wire it seems, so artillery strikes were not really happening. Maybe I have the wrong idea about that.
Notice that in most of these battles the Scottish soldiers are in the thick of the action and i sometimes wonder that the British establishment i.e Westminster regarded the Scots as expendable and of no consequence
Thanks for another great presentation. My great grandfather fought within the highland brigade as part of the The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He and his regiment had been brought from Gibraltar sailing on HMS Orontes to the Egyptian port of Ramleh. ( that ship was the one used in 1879 to bring the Prince Imperial’s body back from the Zulu wars). From there he was transferred onto the S.S. Lusitania before disembarking for the march in the desert. After this battle he indeed went to Cairo and was stationed there until shipping back to Scotland in September 1884 and like many soldiers was awarded the Egypt campaign medal and the Khedive's Star. Keep the videos coming.
Interesting info Alan, thanks. Just wondering, do your g-grandad's medals still exist? I'd reckon they'd be quite rare, and worth a bit to collectors, not that I'd ever sell any of my people's medals.
@@warrenmilford6848 my great grandfather was buried in Inverness in 1931. His medals passed to my grandfather. He and his three brothers all fought in WW1. His Great War medals including the Military Medal and the Egyptian medals he had in his possession were passed to my father and now me. I also have my other great grandfathers Boer war medal with a whole chunk of campaign and battle clasps. With the addition of all their papers everything will be passed on to my son.
@@monochromebluess That's great news, and what a great collection of family history you have. I have my grandad's medals. He lied about his age and served with the Australian Lighthorse in Palestine and Syria in WW1, then in WW2, he joined the R.A.A.F and served in New Guinea. I also have a great uncles medals who was killed in WW1, and is buried in France. Unfortunately, my other grandads WW1 medals were lost in a bad flood in the '50's, as were tragically his brothers medals, who served in the 2nd Lighthorse Regiment, but who was killed at Gallipoli. The medals I do have will also be passed on.
Thanks for your support and for sharing your family story
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Another excellent, informative video. I had a 3x Great uncle at Tel el Kabir with the 1st Seaforth, so really good to see his service brought to life a little. How a lad from south west Wales ended up with the Seaforths though is probably a much longer story!
Thanks for sharing your family story.
Thoroughly enjoyed the narrative, looking forward to the next one.
Thanks for your support.
Another treat for the weekend. Thanks Chris. Enjoy the weekend.
And you too. Best wishes.
Well done Chris! Very detailed. Glorious is not how I would describe this win and there is no glory in war. I have read online this battle was the best performance of Wolseley's career. His talent as an officer was recognized early in his career and developed over the years. It is known that his reputation for efficiency led to the phrase "Everything is all Sir Garnet" or simply "All is in order". Here is something interesting to think about. The army Britain dispatched to Egypt by Napoleonic standards was the size of a full strength army corps and Wolseley was a full general at the time of the battle which from what I can deduce from previous research was at the time corps level command in the British Army. On one of the previous occasions I looked him up, when he was fighting in the Indian Rebellion, Wolseley had racist views of the Indians. Knowing this, it is surprising yet nice to know that Wolseley seemed to tolerate Indian soldiers being in the army and taking part in the battle. The funny thing is, for the expedition, the British sent the finest army they could field to fight the campaign yet in letters he wrote to the army commander-in-chief the Duke of Cambridge, Wosleley urged him to look into recruiting reforms as he noticed during the battle that the soldiers under his command were not of the best quality. In a way, it was pathetic that Britain's army at the time was really the size of an army corps. As for the campaign as a whole and Tel-el-Kebir, the British Army, whose training was sitting on it's laurels and fighting just colonial wars and suppressing rebellions, fighting an army that had a European trained officer corps, under Wolseley's leadership it did a great job. Thank you Chris for providing that colorized photo of the battle's aftermath, it made it look clearer. Whenever I have thought of Wolseley lately, I like to think of him not as a fighter but a master logistician and strategist but this battle shows he was as good of a tactical commander who made sure he strategy was followed as he had planned it. Hey Chris, a couple things I wanted to ask of you. In my research of the BEF of 1914, I have figured out that a battalion numbers 1,000 men. Whenever I hear a unit's name in a video or in research, I assumed it was a regiment's name. Is that the case or does the name refer to the battalion? Also, besides Maiwand, would you be willing to do a video on General Sir Frederick Robert's 320 mile march to Kandahar and the subsequent battle?
Thanks for taking the time to post such a detailed comment.
Sir I am running out of superlatives. As usual your presentation was riveting. From the start to the end of narrative the presentation was and is first rate. Thank you for bringing a bit of joy to an elderly gentlemen.
Thanks for all of your support and kind comments.
Brilliant and very informative video Chris! I always look forward to viewing your new releases, keep up the excellent work!
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It was interesting that Wolseley predicted the location and outcome of his victory over the forces of Urabi Pasha at Tel El Kebir. Like Wellington had done at Waterloo he must have studied the ground before his departure from England. The indicates an unusual preparedness for which he was apparently renowned.
It was more of a butcher's job than it was preparedness.
@@paulhomsy2751 Yes. Sadly, that is the nature of Empire, human nature writ on a grand scale. The Union Jack justly earned the soubriquet: "The Butcher's Apron". We have however reached the end of the Age of Empires. The present imperialists, the globalists, are in retreat. What comes next will be much better.😊
Interesting indeed.
Yep and it was Robert E Lee that he learned this from
Thanks Chris. Thoroughly enjoyed it. 👍👍
My pleasure
I loved this! The 1882 Egyptian campaign is one I've always craved to know more about because the material that I have isn't very in-depth. Great detail. Great maps. Great compilation of paintings and GREAT enthusiasm!. Looking forward to your Kassassin video. THANK YOU and cheers, again, from Montreal!
Hello Montreal, glad you enjoyed.
I enjoyed the video and the story was spellbinding. I love British military history. It is so interesting.
Glad you enjoyed
really good video as usual Chris, keep up the good work!
Thank you for those kind words
Thanks Chris, that was great....always been interested in that episode of British history......cheers
My pleasure
One of my favourite pipe tunes, "battle of Tel el Kebir" composed by piper Cameron HLI after the battle, later joined the Camerons...
Thanks for taking the time to comment & for watchng.
Another cracking yarn Chris told with your usual enthusiasm, gusto and huzzah, the only thing i would add, sound effects ??
This one also struck a nostalgic nerve as one time, around 1990, i flew from heathrow to visit Dad in his home of Zimbabwe, Dad was a scotch drinker and the local '100 pipers' brand barely fell into the scotch whiskey category.
So at duty free i bought Dad a single malt, what caught my eye was the tin it came in, it was some homage to the black watch brigade, those victorian era paintings of famous battles, one was a boer war battle, terrific, but one of the others was yes, that image you showed of the battle of Tel el Kebir.
In fact when your video showed up in my feed, i kinda knew instinctively, that was on the scotch whiskey tin.
Dad loved the single malt and indeed the presentation tin it came in, my love of british military history came from Dad.
Thanks Chris for the lovely memory, they really come from all directions dont they ?
Thanks for sharing your family story that linked to me video
IT IS ABSOLUTELY SUFFICE TO SAY THAT YOUR VIDEOS ARE PERHAPS THE ONLY REASON I LOOK FORWARD TO WEEKENDS.
That’s very kind
A really interesting battle . The highlanders were at their usual performance . Thanks for another
Great story
My pleasure
In my much younger days, I had, or thought I had, a serious dislike for History.
I’m retired now, and have discovered a serious interest in Military History - and have been deeply fascinated by the various stratagems of wartime achievements and failures.
I very much appreciate this series of lectures, and thank you! If only the history classes of my youth had been so well presented!
Thank you once again!
My pleasure. Glad you've found my channel.
Fascinating that such an important battle should only have taken a few hours!
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what a great video, as enfatic as the victory in the battle. Please, keep it up!
Will do. Thanks for your support.
This is a great channel. Thanks from Canada.
Thank you for your comment
My great great grandfather fought in this war on the Egyptian side. He managed to kill 1 British soldier though he nearly lost his life in the war.
Fascintating. Thanks for sharing an alternative view. Very much appreciated.
Awesome as ever 😊 many thanks for your efforts 🙂
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
I like the, strait forward way you Present, these,Historic, Battles. 👍
Thank you.
A nice,informative history lesson once again.
Will you be doing a video about the final Egyptian uprising, the Suez Canal?
Suez Crisis is on my hit-list
That was a really interesting recount of the battle. My great-great-grandfather fought at the battle with the Royal Irish despite being from Wednesday in the West Midlands. While I knew he was at the battle having obtained his military papers and seen the Khadiva Star he received I didn't know how the battle played out. Many thanks for filling in that information
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Thanks for taking the time to share your family story & for watching my video
Never heard of this conflict till now. Great vid❤
Glad you enjoyed it.
My grandfather was at Tel-el - Kebir , a colour sgt in the Cameron Highlanders. I am the last of his 19 grandchildren .I have never been able to trace his medals including the Khedive’s Star. Thank you for the history of this battle.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Hey could you talk about the Ottoman Saudi war of 1814 or the Egyptian ottoman wars like the 1839-40 war, they're seldom mentioned by anyone, or perhaps French colonial wars in North Africa like Algeria
Now those are some interesting subjects. In fairness, my area of expertise is British history.
Hey Chris, i'm deeply impressed say thx again..if I ever knew that it was 😮forgotten...This commander was just a British genius, rare in that ranks, with respect, we had them too..Be blessed. Ludwig
Thanks for watching and sorry for my delayed response. I’m on holiday in France.
Thanks Chris brilliant
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for this. This is one of my favorite battles, but I feel it gets very little notice.
Thanks for watching my video, glad you enjoyed it.
A very interesting video thank you.
Thanks for watching.
Excellent Stuff! Subscribed!
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Excellent history. I can't thank you enough for covering this campaign as an Egyptian myself. This is very fascinating for me.
The economic mismanagement of the ruling elite of 19th century Egypt was extreme, and I always wondered if they choose to befriend Britain ( the true sea power in the Mediterranean ) instead of France, how different history could have played out.
Glad you enjoyed and found it interesting.
You raise a fascinating point about if the French had not been so close let involved.
Thank You for keeping Our history alive.
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Another great video :D
Many thanks.
Didn't know about this episode in British history. Thanks for the usual gripping narrative.
Glad you enjoyed
Another great video of bygone age, very well done
Thank you.
Excellent video, very well done and presented also first rate as usual, thank you.🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed
Another great video.
Your Wars of the Roses series are brilliant too, thank you sir
Many thanks for your support
Excellent video sir! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this. Lived in an old part of Sunderland with a street named after this battle. Great to hear the detail. Will do some research about General Havelock, understand his family was local to me as well and he was part of the Egyptian/Sudan campaigns.
Glad I have inspired you to do some digging.
Thanks really enjoyed this video, coincidental exactly 100 years before my birth
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed my video.
As an ex Blues and Royals Trooper it was good to this version of events 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for watching.
Brilliant Telling of Great History!!!
Many thanks
Thanks Chris, excellent.
Thank you
Thank you for another great video, really enjoyed it. Stay well.
Many thanks
November 11 is Veterans Day in the United States, a day we honor our military vets, past and present. I can't think of a better day to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of every man and woman who has worn their nation's uniform.
Just for your info, this day is also celebrated in Britain, and it's ex-empire countries, as well as France and Belgium. The date marks the day of the official end of WW1. It's also used to honour Veterans past and present, in these countries as well, and is called Armistice Day.
@@warrenmilford6848 Yes, thank you, I was aware of that. Just wanted to offer my respect to all who serve their nation.
@@cyndialver2130 Please forgive me. I didn't read the last part of your comment properly and weirdly took the, 'their nation's' part as 'our nation's'. I just presumed you thought it was an American only day of acknowledgement, and yes, your comment was very respectful to all those who've served their nations.
@@warrenmilford6848 Thank you. I realize there was no offense intended.
Thanks for sharing
Great content as we've have become used to. Whilst at work today another person, whom you may like to cover is Charles Upham VC and Bar.. Cheers THC have a great weekend, back to bully the shoes for Sunday.
Charles Upham VC is on my list for the near future.
A really good watch and very interesting. A little side note for you. I am ex-Royal Artillery and was in my (rather successful I must say!) regimental shooting team in the late 70s. I took part in an old established shooting competition at Bisley against the Royal Engineers, for the ‘Broken Wheel’ trophy! I don’t know for sure, but would like to think it relates back somehow to the broken wheel you spoke of in this video? Btw, I was presented with an ‘Artillery VIII’ tie for taking part, even though we were a team of 6! Isn’t British military tradition just the best!
Thanks for sharing. I guess the trophy is related to this battle.
Great video. Hello from America! Keep up the good work. Would love to see you do some videos on the Spanish American war.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will add it to my list. Just need to think how I work it in my usual stuff on British history.
An interesting video covering a war I knew nothing about.
Glad you enjoyed.
Thank you brilliant video.
Very kind of you, thanks.
In my third book I wrote all about the revolution of urabi and the way the British fought against him my editor refused to published saying that truth is dangerous
Thanks for sharing.
@@TheHistoryChap are you imterested to hear the truth
Fantastic thanks for sharing 👍
My pleasure
Great video today thanks for what you do
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Very clear and easy to understand, just a small request please; if you can spare the time/effort to do a video on the British landing at Basra during WW1 and the subsequent events that lead up to the debacle at the Battle of Kut I would really appreciate it. Thanks
Yes I will add to my (never-ending) list. There are so many forgotten stories from WW1, especially in the Middle East. A man from my village in Cheshire died leading a camel corps charge in the Sinai - that's a long way from the green fields of Cheshire.
@@TheHistoryChap Lol no rush; I’ve read several accounts of the battle already but just curious to hear verbally, and visually, someone else’s informed analysis. My grandfather was at the fight during the British landing at Basra and later at the battle of Kut, he was a captain in the Ottoman army-my father was very old (born in 1916) and unfortunately when I was old enough to understand these things he passed away without really imparting much
That canal photo makes that boat on the foreground look like a toy one.
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Really interesting, thank you. On the graves at Kassasin war cemetery, the cavalry charge is referenced as the "Midnight charge". I laid some flowers there at the centenary. I worked and lived there in the 1980's. Lt Henry Chomley Gribble is one of the British casualties buried there.
Thanks for sharing your visits to Kassasin.
These videos are very helpful in my A-Level studies, so thank you.
Glad you are finding them helpful
When I was a boy there was a dairy company in the locality of Dun Laoghaire, the town where I lived, a few miles south of Dublin in Ireland. It was called TEK Dairy. Locally it was called Tele Kyber Dairy. subsequently learned that the dairy was founded by a man by the name of Sutton who had fought in the famous battle. Though why he chose to give it the same name I have yet to learn. Interestingly, Tel el Kebir is arabic and translates into English as tel (hill) el (the) kebir (big) the big hill.
Damien, thanks for sharing. Fascinating how history links to our present.
@@TheHistoryChap Isn't it just? And look at the fascinating stories that your excellent video provoked from others who commented here about ancestors who fought in the battle. It's wonderful to see that link through to the present day.
I look forward to these videos
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I’d heard of The Battle of Tel El Kebir and General Wolseley, but I’ve got to admit I didn’t have a clue when it was or who the British were fighting at the time :/
Thanks for filling in the blanks :)
My pleasure.
15:12 "57 British soldiers were killed" "The Royal Marines had taken the most casualties, 86" 🤔
Thank you for taking the time to be observant.
I thought many British cavalry units were outfitted with lances after the Napoleonic Wars, yet the picture depict them charging with swords. Were those not the units with lances?
Not all cavalry units used lances.
Now I know at least one battle my great great grandfather was in. He was with the 2nd Brigade in the York and Lancaster Regiment of Foot. Pvt Philip Clement
Glad I’ve shed some light on your family history
What a nice and clear description of the order of battle! I am hoping the the General McPherson on the left flank, was Herbert Taylor MacPherson VC? If so, it turns out that he was my 1st cousin 4 x removed. Loving your videos, particularly the ones within the South African context.
Glad you are enjoying. Thanks for watching.
My Dad was part of the last unit out of Egypt in 1956.
You might enjoy my video about the Suez Crisis of 1956.
Better than the history channel!
Very kind of you.
good video
Thanks for the visit
Excellent video
Thanks
May I say how I enjoyed your history I still call news ,my great grandfather was part of it in the fourth royal dragoons thank you
Glad you enjoyed
Puffy, is that you?
@@josephdowling3745 it's a Mr A H Harrison
@Arthur Harrison Could I ask the name of your great grandfather please?
Hey Chris , On Speaking of Zulus, how is it that the Zulus never adapted the use of the horse into their Army? It seems odd that horses never made it into their society?
aah..that'd be horses for courses, Tom. There's a lot of overhead attached to horses.
Fundamentally horses weren’t part of their society or history.
Outstanding!
Many thanks
Thank you Chris, my Great Great Uncle Corporal David Hynd of the 72nd Highlanders (renamed the Seafords), drowned some time before the main battle. His unit did a gorilla attack behind enemy lines. He volunteered to swim across sweet-water cannel, in-order to steel a boat, so the rest of his unite could cross. David Drowned, however the rest of his unite completed there mission by destroying some of the enemies animations. I have his War Metals. David's death was reported in the London Times the day after his death, spelt Hind)! It turns out there was a Telegraph between London and Cairo. David is burred in one of the unmarked graves. The English pay maintenance for there upkeep.
Wow, what an incredible story. Thanks for sharing.
Why are English paying for the upkeep of a Scots grave?
How did the 22 British soldiers go missing, if they held the field after the battle? 15:16
Great question and I don’t have an answer. Maybe they were killed and bodies never found? Maybe they absconded (PTSD?). Who knows ?
I have, or had the multi volume The War in Egypt & Soudan published by W.G.Blackie & sons, that details this to Omdurman, and is illustrated.
Awesome. Have you seen my video about the battle of Omdurman? th-cam.com/video/P8vE-f869WE/w-d-xo.html
Is this the same battle of the film the four feathers ?
"The Four Feathers" takes place in the Sudan so this is a different (& earlier) campaign. However, the uniforms, etc. in the 2002 film version are the closest representation, in movies, of what the troops would've looked like at this battle.
@@StooTV thanks for that
No, that’s based upon Abu Klea. That is a story I am telling in a video that will be released next week.
Only just found this intresting channel.
Glad you have
One of my Great Grandfathers was wounded in an arm in theis war and awarded the Khedive Star on recommendation to the Egyptian Khedive, Tewfik Pasha, by the Ottoman Sultan.
Thanks for sharing your family story
Outside of Inverness railway station is a war memorial to the Anglo-Egyptian war and Tel -Akabia is named .
Thanks for sharing
A risky and bold stroke. I suppose that, "Who Dares Wins", has always been a part of the British military philosophy. 13:00
I think you may be right. Thanks for taking the time to post.
The first Action for the newly formed York & Lancaster Regiment, possibly the first Action for my great grandfather, who was named as one of the last six living survivors of the Y&L in a Sheffield newspaper of 1946.
Thanks for sharing your family story
I recall reading that the RHG with their 1848 pattern swords cut men from head to waist belt!
Thanks for sharing.
Great video, the thought of waves of highlanders charging towards you is frightening, in my humble opinion our British forces throughout time are without question the best armed forces in the world, the standard by other nations forces are judged, even if at times it was said of our British forces were Lions lead by Donkeys. 😁👍👍👍👊✌️🇬🇧.
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Sir Garnet Wolsey was Gilbert and Sullivans The very model of a modern Major General
So it was claimed, and Wolseley enjoyed the connection.
The Forces of and for Good won. Huzzah!😊
Thanks for watching my video & your comment.
we have a Tel El Kebir lounge in one of the boozers on Eastbourne seafront
Now you know the story behind it.
How do 22 British soldiers go "missing" from a 1-hour battle? I don't understand. I get why there were missing in WW1 and WW2 as an artillery shell could hit a bunker and bury them all alive or hit a soldier directly and blow his body in to a million pieces, but I don't get why it happened here as the entire battle took place within the Egyptians own wire it seems, so artillery strikes were not really happening. Maybe I have the wrong idea about that.
Who knows.
I have always found the story of tel al kebir
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Of course a sergeant found the way up.
Professional armies have noncoms, which is why they win.
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Corrrr, the lads looking right proper in their red coats in that image.
Need to dress up as it is Friday!
Great story but the sub titles are awful
Woolsley is spelled about 10 differrent ways!
Unfortunately, sub titles are TH-cam generated. I need to learn how to upload my own scripts.
@@TheHistoryChap I guessed that ok. I see it on other sites too. Just particularly bad with less usual language. Cheers Your videos are great.
Notice that in most of these battles the Scottish soldiers are in the thick of the action and i sometimes wonder that the British establishment i.e Westminster regarded the Scots as expendable and of no consequence
An alternative way to look at it, was that if you wanted to frighten the life out of your enemies you wanted the Highlanders there.
'All Sir Garnet!'
I think he deserves his own video
Nice that the British interceded to let the other guy live.
Thank you for taking the time to comment
Just for future reference if covering Scottish history, it’s the skirl of the pipes! Great video though!
Thanks for the skirl.
The Highland Brigade's bagpipes would have been skirling, not swirling.
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Tel El Kebir sounds a lot better than it means : the big tel.
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