Egyptian soldiers were transported to Suez like prisoners and livestock

Evidence

The Egyptian soldiers were placed in vans and cattle-trucks like animals. They quitted the capital without arms, as prisoners, and with all the circumstances of dishonour. Their native officers were selected from those who were most obnoxious to the new regime, and their very appointment was an avowed and undisguised measure of punishment and repression. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 513

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in colonial tools: the khedive/post-Arabi regime treating its own soldiers as colonial prisoners foreshadows the same border-defining dynamics found later in Egyptian sub-imperialism in Sudan.