Eventually order was restored and a month later, General Garnet Wolseley landed a large force of British troops in Alexandria as a staging location for attacking Urabi near the Suez Canal at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir.
When the first British High Commissioner, Sir Garnet Wolseley, arrived in Cyprus in 1878, he was keen to construct a railway on the island but the project did not come to fruition for a long time, due to the uncertainty of the length of the British mandate in Cyprus.
In July 1913, Donald-Smith was recorded on the First List of Subscriptions, as having given £3.3.0 to the Lord Wolseley Memorial Fund, where she was titled "Miss".
He served in the militia, travelling with Colonel Wolsely's Red River expedition in 1870, and later became lieutenant-colonel in the local militia.
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Viscount | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Vickers Viscount | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | viscount | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle | Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham | William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim |
In this he claimed, among The Soldiers I have known, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Ulysses S. Grant, Sherman, Robert Napier, Mikhail Skobelev, Osman Pasha, Sir Redvers Buller, and Lords Wolseley and Roberts.
Dongola racing originates from Lord Wolseley's Nile Expedition of 1884–1885 to relieve Charles George Gordon at Khartoum.
The latter streets are named after English places (Croydon, Guildford & Surrey) and Sir Garnet Road, named in honour of a famous British Army General (Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, born in Ireland, who served a distinguished career and became a hero in the British army in the late 1800s & early 1900).
After Wolseley, Evelyn Wood and Roberts - all of whom had seen the future of cavalry as being for use as mounted infantry only - had retired the traditional view was reestablished as French and his protégé Major-General Haig rose to the top of the army.
In 1882 under the command of Sir Garnet Wolseley he took part in the Battle of Tel el-Kebir during the Urabi Revolt and was decorated for his efforts.