Khedive Isma’il’s Sudan expansion debts triggered British occupation of Egypt.

Evidence

His grandson, the khedive Ismaïl, pursued both policies: the expansion of Egyptian control of the Sudan, and the institutionalization of a native-born bureaucracy. But his expansionism exceeded his budget, and, having drawn loans from British, French, and other European banks that he could not repay, Ismaïl made Egypt vulnerable to the economic, and then the political, control of foreign governments, which eventually led to his deposition in 1879 and the British occupation in 1882. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 63

Categorization

• SHARE: For anyone interested in debt-led colonization — Isma’il’s Sudan ambitions directly caused the foreign-financial stranglehold that ended in British occupation.