On the 13th of June 1906, in colonial Egypt, British soldiers went pigeon hunting in a village of the Delta. The hunting game ended up with the death of one soldier and one villager. The British authorities, with the help of a part of the Egyptian elite, inflicted so severe punishments to the villagers that the incident became an international event. Some nationalists, and among them Muṣṭafa Kâmil Pacha, seized the event to revive the national liberation struggle. Until today, the event is known by the name of the village where it happened: ‘the Dinshway incident’. In the Egyptian common culture, it alone represents the barbarism of British colonialism in Egypt. On the one hand, this article revisits the event itself in order to uncover the fact that this event is more than an incident. It is a revolt in a rural context which political scope goes far beyond the village’s limits. On the other hand, this article analyses the discursive aspects of the event. It mainly focuses on the British authorities’ narrative and that of Muṣṭafa Kâmil Pacha. For as paradoxical as it may seem, the former granted the ‘fellahin’ a patriotism that the latter denied. This dual approach aims to rid of the narrative of its national-colonial constraint to allow the Dinshwây village’s inhabitants to be the subjects of history.