With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... - General Gatacre's bugler- Hair - breadth escapes - A cheap victory - The Khalifa's losses -The Baggara cavalry - Ferocious heroism - Counting the dead --- Perfect strategy 152 CONTENTS . xi XIX . THE TRIUMPH . - The X CONTENTS .
... - General Gatacre's bugler- Hair - breadth escapes - A cheap victory - The Khalifa's losses -The Baggara cavalry - Ferocious heroism - Counting the dead --- Perfect strategy 152 CONTENTS . xi XIX . THE TRIUMPH . - The X CONTENTS .
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... Khalifa's refusal to fight would mean . XXIII . IN SUMMER QUARTERS . The one important question - Sport on the Atbara — A pessim- istic senior captain - The Atbara Derby - A varied conversa . tion - The recruit and the mirage ...
... Khalifa's refusal to fight would mean . XXIII . IN SUMMER QUARTERS . The one important question - Sport on the Atbara — A pessim- istic senior captain - The Atbara Derby - A varied conversa . tion - The recruit and the mirage ...
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... Khalifa's blunders and probable fate - The battle of Gedaref - Our mistakes and our merits . 284 XXXIV . OMDURMAN . The destruction of the forts - The white flag - A squalid capital -A huge harem - Through the breach - In the Khalifa's ...
... Khalifa's blunders and probable fate - The battle of Gedaref - Our mistakes and our merits . 284 XXXIV . OMDURMAN . The destruction of the forts - The white flag - A squalid capital -A huge harem - Through the breach - In the Khalifa's ...
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... semi- circle , with Omdurman and Khartum for a centre , so that the Khalifa held the advantage of the interior . The westward horn of the semicircle was the garrisons of Dongola , Korti , and Merawi ; the 53 ARMS AND.
... semi- circle , with Omdurman and Khartum for a centre , so that the Khalifa held the advantage of the interior . The westward horn of the semicircle was the garrisons of Dongola , Korti , and Merawi ; the 53 ARMS AND.
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... Khalifa , nobody except probably Colonel Wingate - knew anything at all . - Whatever there was to know , Colonel Wingate surely knew it , for he makes it his business to know everything . He is the type of the learned soldier , in which ...
... Khalifa , nobody except probably Colonel Wingate - knew anything at all . - Whatever there was to know , Colonel Wingate surely knew it , for he makes it his business to know everything . He is the type of the learned soldier , in which ...
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