With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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Página vii
... Egyptian strategi- cal victory - The defeat of Nejumi - The turning - point of the drama - Convict labour - The taming of the Sudan - The cemetery • PAGE . 1 II . THE EGYPTIAN ARMY ... armies - The Sudanese battalions - A perennial schoolboy ...
... Egyptian strategi- cal victory - The defeat of Nejumi - The turning - point of the drama - Convict labour - The taming of the Sudan - The cemetery • PAGE . 1 II . THE EGYPTIAN ARMY ... armies - The Sudanese battalions - A perennial schoolboy ...
Página viii
... Egyptian Mahdi 45 VII . ARMS AND MEN . Major - General Hunter - The sword - arm of the Egyptian Army -A nineteenth - century crusader - An officer renowned for bravery - A possible new national hero - Lieut . - Col . Hector Macdonald ...
... Egyptian Mahdi 45 VII . ARMS AND MEN . Major - General Hunter - The sword - arm of the Egyptian Army -A nineteenth - century crusader - An officer renowned for bravery - A possible new national hero - Lieut . - Col . Hector Macdonald ...
Página xi
... Egyptian army 168 · 173 XXII . THE FIRST STEPS FORWARD . --- The force for Omdurman - The Egyptian division - The Warwicks - Cavalry and artillery - The new gunboats- Slatin Pasha - What the Khalifa's refusal to fight would mean . XXIII ...
... Egyptian army 168 · 173 XXII . THE FIRST STEPS FORWARD . --- The force for Omdurman - The Egyptian division - The Warwicks - Cavalry and artillery - The new gunboats- Slatin Pasha - What the Khalifa's refusal to fight would mean . XXIII ...
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... Egypt and the lean Sudan - Beggarly , empty , miserable - Egyptian officials- What Egypt has gained by the conquest - The future of the Egyptian army - An empty limbo of torment - Naked nature 317 LIST OF MAPS . GENERAL MAP - EGYPT TO ...
... Egypt and the lean Sudan - Beggarly , empty , miserable - Egyptian officials- What Egypt has gained by the conquest - The future of the Egyptian army - An empty limbo of torment - Naked nature 317 LIST OF MAPS . GENERAL MAP - EGYPT TO ...
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... Egyptian Government : he risked all , and proclaimed himself El Mahdi el ... army , and again the Mahdists destroyed it . The barbarous tribesmen flocked ... army came down from the North only to swell the Mahdi's triumph to immensity .
... Egyptian Government : he risked all , and proclaimed himself El Mahdi el ... army , and again the Mahdists destroyed it . The barbarous tribesmen flocked ... army came down from the North only to swell the Mahdi's triumph to immensity .
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