Abstract
This study deals with the British foreign policy and the Egyptian affairs in the 1890s. At the end of the 1880s, the British occupation of Egypt became permanent and the internal political situation started to become complicated because British interventions in the Egyptian administration grew significantly.
In January 1892, the Khedive Tawfīg died and the British position in Egypt got complicated because his Anglophobe son Abbas II Hilmi succeeded to the throne. Next two years, the British Consul-General in Cairo, Lord Cromer, got into trouble with the young Khedive over the appointment of Prime Ministers and duties of the British officers in the Egyptian Army and officials in the administration.
The crises of 1893 and 1894 were short and non-violent; nonetheless, they left scars on British-Egyptians relations. In relation to the strengthening of the British military presence in the country and of the functioning of its administration, a hostile anti-British nationalistic movement started to gain force.
Because of the growing national sentiment, Lord Cromer did his utmost that the Egyptians would perceive the de facto permanent occupation positively. The so-called Denshawai Incident is considered to be a turning point of Lord Cromer's era because, the first time since 1882, the Egyptian national movement gained the support of British public opinion and this Incident hastened his departure from Egypt.