British political ambitions 9 very much, as the exports from Egypt via Aswan alone were two million pounds, and the exports from Suakin, Qena, and Assiut were equivalent to this amount. As for Sudan's imports to Egypt and via Egypt, they were about eleven million pounds. As for the remaining, Egypt was left with only a meager portion of this commercial import and export that was hardly worth mentioning. And if it weren't for the import of Sudanese livestock in recent times, the connections and commercial ties between Egypt and its Sudan would have reached the point of non-existence, despite the increase in development and the number of inhabitants, reaching one and a half million. The trade of Egypt and Sudan now enters. However, Egypt does not lose its lifeblood by losing Sudan, but rather its trade and its production. industries. Therefore, the Egyptian government, headed by Sharif Pasha alone, did not object in 1884 to the British decision to evacuate Sudan, but also protested this decision. National and foreign merchants, in a letter they sent to Khedive Tewfik Pasha and his minister, Nubar Pasha, and the representatives of the powers, said: "Sudan's imports are one million pounds (via Aswan) and its exports are eleven million and a half million pounds, and the properties and revenues are estimated in many millions, and the number of Christian merchants is 15,000 and the number of Egyptian merchants is 40,000. And the number of Egyptian commercial establishments is three thousand, and the number of foreign commercial establishments is about a thousand, and the stock of goods is estimated at half a million pounds." However, all of this did not prevent England's determination to evacuate Sudan, but rather it was what prompted them to evacuate it in order to take possession of it. As soon as the order for evacuation was issued, Admiral Hewett landed an English force in Suakin (February 24, 1884). And before that, in 1883, they had planned the railway from Suakin to Berber to divert the trade route from Egypt to Suakin, thus benefiting from Sudan's wealth. And their ships found a convenient means of transport without congestion, and the Egyptian soldiers were being destroyed.