From Inflexible's guns to an armored train at Alexandria

As captain of HMS Inflexible, Fisher took part in the bombardment of Alexandria during the Anglo-Egyptian War. He was then sent ashore and attracted public attention by building an armored train. The improvisation carried his technical and organizational habits beyond the ship into a land campaign tied directly to naval intervention. Illness from dysentery and malaria eventually forced him home, prompting the judgment that the Admiralty could replace Inflexible more easily than it could replace Fisher.