Anglo-Egyptian War: Difference between revisions

In the wake of the advancing columns, telegraph lines were laid on either side of the Sweet Water canal. At 2&nbsp;am (13 September) Wolseley successfully sent a message to the Major General Sir [[Herbert Taylor MacPherson|H. Macpherson]] VC on the extreme left with the Indian Contingent and the Naval Brigade. At Tell El Kebir a field telegraph office was established in a saloon carriage, which [[Arabi Pasha]] had travelled in the day before. At 8:30&nbsp;am (13 September) after the victory at the battle of Tell El Kebir, Wolseley used the telegram to send messages of his victory to [[Queen Victoria]]; he received a reply from her at 9.15&nbsp;am the same day. Once they had got connected to the permanent line the Section also worked the [[Theiber sounder]] {{explanation needed|date=January 2023}} and the [[telephone]].<ref name=porter />