| Grand Cross of the , 1869• Debts [ ] These developments — especially the costly war with Ethiopia — left Egypt in deep debt to the European powers, and they used this position to wring concessions out of Ismail | In the following decades Arabic would further expand and eventually replace Turkish in the army and administration, leaving Turkish only to be used in correspondence with the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople |
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| 372 , retrieved 2018-01-06 — via runeberg | Morrow, Lance 31 March 1986 |
Grand Cross of the , 1869• But at length the inevitable financial crisis came.
| Suez Canal [ ] cartoon featuring Isma'il Pasha during his visit to Britain in 1867 Ismail's khedivate is closely connected to the building of the | Isma'il Pasha Statue in Alexandria, Egypt One of his most significant achievements was to establish an assembly of delegates in November 1866 |
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| Ismail launched vast schemes of internal reform on the scale of his grandfather, remodeling the customs system and the post office, stimulating commercial progress, creating a industry, building the cotton industry, building palaces, entertaining lavishly, and maintaining an and a theatre | Here Ismail occupied regions originally claimed by the Ottomans when they had established the province eyaleti of Habesh in the 16th century |
Grand Cross of the , 1869• Much of the money went for the construction of the Suez Canal.