Conder joined theexpedition to Egypt in 1882, underSir Garnet Wolseley, to suppress therebellion ofUrabi Pasha. He was appointed a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general on the staff of the intelligence department. In Egypt his perfect knowledge of Arabic and of Eastern people proved most useful. He was present at the action ofKassassin, theBattle of Tel el-Kebir, and the advance toCairo, but then, seized with typhoid fever, he was invalided home. For his services he received the war medal with clasp for Tel el-Kebir, theKhedive's bronzestar and the fourth class of theOrder of the Medjidie.[citation needed]
While surveying the area ofSafed in July 1875, Conder and his party were attacked by local residents and Conder sustained a serioushead injury which left him bedridden for a while and unable to return to Palestine.[7] The work of surveying the country of Palestine commenced again only in late February 1877, without Conder.[8]
^Stewart Howe, Kathleen (1997).Revealing the Holy Land: the photographic exploration of Palestine. University of California Press. pp. 37–38.ISBN0-89951-095-7.
^H.H. Kitchener,Survey of Galilee,Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement (1878), pp. 159–174.
Moscrop, John James (2000).Measuring Jerusalem: the Palestine Exploration Fund and British interests in the Holy Land. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 98–99.ISBN0-7185-0220-5.
Yadin, Yigael (1977).Masada. La fortaleza de Herodes y el último bastión de los Zelotes. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino.ISBN84-233-0537-6.
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