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... native troops - The merits of " Sergeant Whatsisname❞ — A daily heroism - Bey and Bimbashi - Rapid promotion - One of the highest achievements of our race • 11 III . THE S.M.R. The deadliest weapon against Mahdism - An impossibility ...
... native troops - The merits of " Sergeant Whatsisname❞ — A daily heroism - Bey and Bimbashi - Rapid promotion - One of the highest achievements of our race • 11 III . THE S.M.R. The deadliest weapon against Mahdism - An impossibility ...
Page ix
... Native ideas of distance and number . 92 • 100 XIII . ON THE ATBARA . A veritable paradise - Sambo and the dom - nuts - A land without life - A cavalry skirmish - A strong reconnaissance - A false alarm - The real enemy - The want of ...
... Native ideas of distance and number . 92 • 100 XIII . ON THE ATBARA . A veritable paradise - Sambo and the dom - nuts - A land without life - A cavalry skirmish - A strong reconnaissance - A false alarm - The real enemy - The want of ...
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... native of Dongola , named Mohammed Ahmed . The Sudan is the home of fanaticism : it has always been called " the Land of the Dervishes , " and no rising saint was more ascetic than the young Dongolawi . He was a disciple of a holy man ...
... native of Dongola , named Mohammed Ahmed . The Sudan is the home of fanaticism : it has always been called " the Land of the Dervishes , " and no rising saint was more ascetic than the young Dongolawi . He was a disciple of a holy man ...
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... native village . Even these figures do not do justice to the easy con- ditions on which Egypt supports her army . For of the eighteen battalions of infantry , six - 9th to 14th- are Sudanese blacks . The material of these is not drawn ...
... native village . Even these figures do not do justice to the easy con- ditions on which Egypt supports her army . For of the eighteen battalions of infantry , six - 9th to 14th- are Sudanese blacks . The material of these is not drawn ...
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... native sun , and do with plaited - straw round the tarbush , bearing a badge whose colour varies with the various battalions . The infantry rifle is the Martini . The cavalry are all Egyptians , recruited mostly from the Fayum oasis : a ...
... native sun , and do with plaited - straw round the tarbush , bearing a badge whose colour varies with the various battalions . The infantry rifle is the Martini . The cavalry are all Egyptians , recruited mostly from the Fayum oasis : a ...
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