Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — The British Army in Egypt. [ARTICLE]

The British Army in Egypt.

The British forces for the army of Egypt, under Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Saele, are the Eighth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first Hussars, Foity-second, Seventy-first, and Seventy-fourth regiments (Highlanders), the One Hundred and First Bengal Fusileers, a brigade ot the Guards, comprising the Second Battalion of Coldstream Guards, and the First Battalion Scotch Fusileers ; a battalion of the Welsh Fusileers, two regiments of the line, a battalion of sharpshooters, and 5,000 native troops from India. These troops will make a force of about 15,000 men in Egypt.