Talk:Bombardment of Alexandria

"British protectorate"

The text as of 20220130 at 0104 EST concluded as follows:

"After that the Urabi revolt was put down. Egypt became a British protectorate until 1922 and remained under British domination through the Second World War."

Including lack of a footnoted source. I do not currently have a source either so welcome that contribution by others, but the statement as given is wrong. Egypt was occupied by the British and French, and then latterly just by the British, and they had what would now be considered a very aggressive status of forces agreement, various financial supervision agreements, and IIRC extraterritoriality for their personnel, which was pretty standard stuff at the time. But Egypt did NOT become a British protectorate for all that these things sound to modern ears like that. In the British system, protectorate status was even more intrusive of domestic governance and constituted an extension of British sovereignty. Egypt remained what it had been, a self-governing viceroyalty of the Ottoman empire, with the Egyptian government continuing to operate and purely nominal Ottoman authority acknowledged, Ottoman flags flown, Ottoman passports and documents issued, and so on. Egypt was then taken as a protectorate in 1914, legally separating it from Ottoman sovereignty for the first time and immediately putting it under British, as a WW1 measure. It held that status 1914-22. It then became an independent state but with British presence similar to pre-1914, until the 1950s.

I have altered the sentence: "After that the Urabi revolt was put down. Egypt came under partial British military occupation and significant governmental supervision (including as an outright British Protectorate 1914-22) and remained under British domination through the Second World War." Random noter (talk) 06:13, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I've also added a second link to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_protectorate Random noter (talk) 06:19, 30 January 2022 (UTC)