3-090-797 - LTL/Heritage Images

Urabi and the Honourable Mark Napier on their way from the prison to the Court, crossing the quadrangle of the Daira Sanieh, Cairo, Egypt on 3 December, 1882. Ahmed Urabi, (1841-1911), Nationalist officer in the Egyptian Army was charged of rebellion for the events in Cairo in September 1881, which ended with the devastation and looting in Alexandria (June-August 1882). He was sentenced to death, although his sentence was commuted to exile in Ceylon. From "La Ilustración Española y Americana" (The Spanish and American Illustration), 8 January 1883.