With the looting in Alexandria becoming endemic, the British took drastic action. Admiral Seymour appointed Lord Charles Beresford - Charlie B, to his men - as commander of the British forces policing the city. Beresford, accompanied by his pet bulldog, took immediate control. The British garrison arrested all looters they could find, and some were flogged, including several Greeks.
“The Greeks are more trouble than the indigenous inhabitants,” Major Tulloch complained to Jack. “They antagonise the Arabs and treat them as inferiors in their own city.”
The British shot arsonists without hesitation, while the guards at the city gates disarmed everybody who entered. The marines also arrested anybody wearing Egyptian army uniforms and sent them to the Khedive, and gradually the disorder decr
