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The plan was kept a profound secret: the troops were placed on board the transports, and, escorted by the fleet, steamed away to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal, and then up the canal to Ismailia.
In attempting to carry her off and to check the further progress of the rebels the Ismailia was badly hit, and the incident was one of those only too frequent at all stages of the siege, when Gordon wrote: "Every time I hear the gun fire I have a twitch of the heart of gnawing anxiety for my penny steamers."
It has a couple of hotels; and its principal square, on which the best one is situated, has the name of Place Champollion, showing that the French remember their learned men. While the canal was in process of construction, Ismaïlia was the centre of operations.
DO & CLERICAL STAFF No.2 BASE WORKSHOPS. AFTER VJ DAY Sometimes we went into Ismailia, a nearby town for a change of pace, perhaps to the open air cinema or to buy something to send home; I remember sending packets of jordan almonds and dates back to Britain.
"He must have smuggled himself on board of the little steamer when we were at Ismaïlia; for he was first seen out in the lake." "How could he have been at Ismaïlia?" Scott inquired. The commander went to his cabin, and looked over his "Bradshaw," in which he found that a steamer left Port Said at seven o'clock every morning, and arrived at Ismaïlia at noon.
Kantara and Ismailia, on the canal, were speedily seized; and the Seaforth Highlanders by a rapid march occupied Chalouf and prevented the cutting of the freshwater canal by the rebels. Thenceforth the little army had the advantage of marching near fresh water, and by a route on which Arabi was not at first expecting them.
"I should like to go on board of one of those great British steamers that sail to the other side of the earth," said Mrs. Belgrave. "Possibly we may have an opportunity to do so at Ismaïlia or Suez.
After this picturesque defiance it only remained for him and the Egyptians to prove which was the stronger. It must be admitted that Raouf at once recognised the gravity of the affair, and without delay he sent a small force on Gordon's old steamer, the Ismailia, to bring Mahomed Ahmed to reason. This was in August 1881.
Somewhere between Ismailia and the Gate of Tears, Love came on board the Mahanaddy a sorry pilot and took charge of Manly Fenn and the girl who was going out to marry her old playmate. It was a serious matter from the first like a fever that takes a man of middle age who has never been ill before.
Driven to despair, he determined to leave Paris, and as Grand Combe seemed too near in his frenzied longing for flight, he asked and obtained an appointment as overseer on the Suez Canal at Ismailia.
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