Excerpt from The Question of Egypt in Anglo-French Relations, 1875-1904 The passing of British ascendancy in Egypt naturally raises the question of how it originated in the first instance. For, singularly enough, although the protectorate dated from only the opening of the late war, Great Britain's influence in the Nile valley has been paramount for forty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.