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... desperate striving after realism , a vivid idea of what a correspondent with the Turkish forces in Thessaly went through . " -Times . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS , EDINBURGH AND LONDON . WITH KITCHENER TO KHARTUM 77887 BY G. W. STEEVENS ཁ.
... desperate striving after realism , a vivid idea of what a correspondent with the Turkish forces in Thessaly went through . " -Times . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS , EDINBURGH AND LONDON . WITH KITCHENER TO KHARTUM 77887 BY G. W. STEEVENS ཁ.
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... 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 . IN SUMMER QUARTERS . The one important question - Sport on 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 . IN SUMMER QUARTERS . The one important question - Sport on the ...
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... force of Egypt used to sleep half awake . The brown flanks of those hills beyond the rifle - range , just a couple of miles or so desert- wards , have seen Dervishes stealing up in broad day and insolently slashing and stabbing in the ...
... force of Egypt used to sleep half awake . The brown flanks of those hills beyond the rifle - range , just a couple of miles or so desert- wards , have seen Dervishes stealing up in broad day and insolently slashing and stabbing in the ...
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... regimental officer than the Englishman ; there is no better natural fighter than the Sudanese : there would hardly be a likelier force in the world . SERGEANT WHATSISNAME . 17 The native officers are largely of 16 THE EGYPTIAN ARMY .
... regimental officer than the Englishman ; there is no better natural fighter than the Sudanese : there would hardly be a likelier force in the world . SERGEANT WHATSISNAME . 17 The native officers are largely of 16 THE EGYPTIAN ARMY .
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... force was a jumble of irregulars and levies without dis- cipline . But it is not perhaps fanciful to believe that the Sirdar , who has never given battle without mak- ing certain of an annihilating victory , has not for- gotten his ...
... force was a jumble of irregulars and levies without dis- cipline . But it is not perhaps fanciful to believe that the Sirdar , who has never given battle without mak- ing certain of an annihilating victory , has not for- gotten his ...
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