"General Sir Frederick C. A. Stephenson" Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Oct 2015 10:01 p.m. PST |
"A highly competent senior officer, General Sir Frederick C. A. Stephenson was commander of the British Army of Occupation in Egypt after the 1882 Arabi Rebellion and commander at the last battle of the Gordon Relief Expedition in 1885. Stephenson, born in 1821, saw active service in the Crimean War. After the outbreak of war in China in 1857, Stephens on , as a lieutenant colonel, commanded the troops on board H. M. T. Transit- one of the officers on board was Lieutenant (later Field Marshal Vis count) Garnet J. Wolseley – which was shipwrecked on 10 July 1857. Stephens on served in China until 1860. After the Arabi Rebellion in Egypt was suppressed by a British force commanded by Wolseley in 1882, Stephenson, as a lieutenant general, commanded the British Army of Occupation. After the bloody defeat of the Egyptian Gendarmerie by dervish forces at the Battle of El Teb (4 February 1884) Stephenson was ordered to send a force, commanded by Major General (later Lieutenant General) Sir Gerald Graham, V. C., to the eastern Sudan…"
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