It seems that Damietta’s towers and fortifications did not receive adequate care during the Ottoman era, so it cracked and was destroyed. With the advent of the French campaign, Damietta, led by Hassan Toubar, the leader of the status, revolted against the soldiers of the campaign in early September 1798. The people of Ezbet Al-Burj, in turn, revolted against the French garrison in their village and killed eight of its men, and soon The French did not put down this revolution and set fire to the village of poets, in which some of the men of Tobar were fortified. When the people of Ezbet al-Burj heard what had happened to the village of poets, they preferred to leave their homes for fear of reprisal from the French, so they left their village, sailing with their boats towards Acre. The French actually carried out their revenge, destroying the houses of Ezbet El-Burj, but the danger of the Ottoman and British fleets that threatened their presence in Egypt prompted them to build a war-bed in it and two tabernacles north of it on the eastern and western side “Sheikh Yusuf” at the entrance to the Nile in the same location as the ruins of the two towers that the Caliph al-Mutawakkil ordered to build.
After the departure of the French campaign and the assumption of power by Muhammad Ali Pasha, he took over the tabernacle and renewed it for its defensive importance on the northern coasts of Egypt, as did Abbas I and Khedive Ismail, who showed interest in its architecture, raising the thickness of its walls and increasing its fortification, in addition to clearing the trench for its great importance at the time. During the resistance to the British invasion of Egypt in 1882, some of the Arabs, led by Admiral Abdel-Al Helmy, fortified it, to defend it if the British tried to enter Egypt from the mouth of the Nile, but after the defeat of the Great Hill and the handing over of Tabia Al-Gamil to the British, their resolve weakened and the British sent a force that captured Admiral Abdel-Al Helmy in The tabernacle after refusing to surrender, after which the British released the soldiers of the tabernacle and undermined its fortifications and destroyed its cannons. Therefore, he attributes the reason for naming the tabya as the orabi tabernacle to the Urabis fortification and fortification of it. .
Al-Tabia remained in limbo, and when the Triple Aggression war broke out in 1956, it was prepared to house the displaced from the Canal cities, and a third floor was added to its buildings to accommodate the largest number of displaced families.
