These actions make Ismail popular at home,…

These actions make Ismail popular at home, but they threatened continued European control over Egypt's finances.

The European powers, particularly Britain and France, decide Ismail has to go.

Since he refuses to abdicate, the European powers put pressure on the Ottoman sultan to dismiss him in favor of his son Tewfiq.

On June 26, 1879, he receives a telegram from the grand vizier addressed to "the ex-khedive Ismail."

Ismail leaves Egypt for exile in Naples and subsequently in Istanbul, where he will die in 1895.