Note 77 — Chapter XXIII · CAPTURE OF CAIRO AND COLLAPSE OF THE REBELLION.

This sentiment, however, subsided very quickly, and when, on a vote of thanks being proposed in the House of Commons to the British army, Sir Wilfrid Lawson moved as an amendment that "a vote of thanks should be given to the Egyptian army for running away," his observations were received with good-humoured laughter, if not with approval.