Kassassin
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Kassassin (Arabic: القصاصين) is a village of Lower Egypt 22 miles by rail, west of Ismailia on the Suez Canal. At this place, on 28 August and again on 9 September 1882 the British force operating against Urabi Pasha was attacked by the Egyptians. Both attacks were repulsed.
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