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* ‘Urabi sentenced to death (later commuted to exile)
| territory = [[British occupation of Egypt]]
| combatant1 = {{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=United Kingdom}}<br>{{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} [[Tewfik Pasha|Tewfik]] loyalists
| combatant2 = {{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} Egyptian and Sudanese forces under [[Prime ministerKhedivate of Egypt|Premier]] [[Ahmed ‘UrabiEgypt]]
* {{flagcountry|British India}}
*{{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Khedive [[Tewfik Pasha]]
| combatant2 = {{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} Egyptian and Sudanese forces under [[Prime minister of Egypt|Premier]] [[Ahmed ‘Urabi]]
| commander1 = {{ubl|{{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley|Garnet Wolseley]]|{{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester|Beauchamp Seymour]]|{{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} [[Tewfik Pasha]]}}
| commander2 = {{ubl|{{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} [[Ahmed ‘Urabi]]|{{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} [[Mahmoud Fehmy]]|{{flagicon image|Egypt flag 1882.svg}} [[Mahmoud Sami El Baroudi|Mahmoud El Baroudi]]}}
| strength1 = 40,560 [[standing army|regulars]]
| strength2 = {{ubl|11,300 regulars|50,000 [[reservists]] and [[Irregular military|irregular troops]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Featherstone |first1=Donald |title=Tel El-Kebir 1882 |date=1993 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |pages=40–41}}</ref>}}
| casualties1 = {{ubl|80–90 killed|600+ wounded<ref>There are no exact British casualty figures. The official [[War Office]] history gives a total of 83 killed, 607 wounded and 30 'missing', not including Royal Navy losses at Alexandria. Colonel J. F. Maurice, ''Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt'' (HMSO, 1887: new ed. 1908) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285063/page/n133/mode/2up Appendix VI]. See, however, Peter Duckers, ''Egypt 1882: Dispatches, Casualties, Awards'' (Spink, 2001).</ref>}}
| casualties2 = {{ubl|Unknown |2,000–4,000 killed or wounded (British estimates)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=William |title=A Tidy Little War: The British Invasion of Egypt, 1882 |date=2009 |publisher=Spellmount}}</ref>}}
| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Anglo-Egyptian War}}
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