Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan

Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
By Bennet Burleigh

War correspondent Bennet Burleigh's illustrated eyewitness account follows the Anglo-Egyptian campaign from its preparations and advance along the Nile to the Battle of Omdurman, Khartoum, and the Fashoda affair.

Written soon after the events, the book combines reporting from the field with military detail, personal observation, official dispatches, photographs, and maps. This carefully prepared EPUB retains the original illustrations and plans while adding modern navigation.

Format: EPUB
Language: English
Edition: Nile Book Store digital edition

Historical content note: This work presents colonial warfare and Sudanese people through a British correspondent's nineteenth-century perspective and includes period language and images that may be disturbing or offensive.

A public-domain work, newly prepared for modern reading by Nile Book Store.

Excerpt

It is an easier and kindlier duty to set forth facts than to proclaim opinions and pronounce judgments. Before Tel-el-Kebir was fought in September 1882 and the Egyptian army beaten and disbanded, the insurrection headed by the Mahdi or False Prophet had begun. In the disrupted condition of affairs which succeeded Arabi Pasha's defeat by British arms the dervish movement made further rapid progress.

To Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., at the close of 1882, was assigned the task, as Sirdar or Commander-in-Chief of the Khedivial troops, of forming a real native army.