 Serageddin ordered the police to fight "to the last man and the last bullet".The resulting battle saw the police station leveled and 43 Egyptian policemen killed together with 3 British soldiers.The Ismailia incident outraged Egypt and the next day, 26 January 1952 was "Black Saturday", as the anti-British riot was known, that saw much of downtown Cairo which Ismail the Magnificent had rebuilt in the style of Paris, burned down.