Excerpt from The Egyptian Soudan, Its Loss and Its Recovery: Including I. A Rapid Sketch of the History of the Soudan; II. A Narrative of the Dongola Expedition, 1896; III. A Full Account of the Nile Expeditions, 1897 8; With Numerous Portraits, Illustrations and Maps and Records of the Services of the Offi
All that has been attempted in this book has been to put before the public, in a readable and concise form, the events in the Egyptian Soudan which have led up to, and resulted in, the downfall of the Dervishes.
Every one knows that Gordon was killed at Khartoum and that Kitchener has avenged his fate, but comparatively few understand - for instance - why Gordon was ever in the Soudan at all, or why the British have reconquered that country. As for Pasha, Bey, Sirdar, Bimbashi - people seem to shy at the very sight of these words, and to almost wonder how an Englishman can belong to the Egyptian Army and yet retain his nationality! The sequence of events on the Nile, has extended over so long a period, in such an apparently disjointed fashion, that it is perhaps only natural there should be some vagueness on the subject.
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