Identifier: cassellshistoryo00gran (find matches)
Title: Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Grant, James, 1822-1887
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Publisher: London Cassel
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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GOVIKMUKNT HOUSE, KHAKTOVM, IN WHICH GORDON KEBIDED. who placed his Arabs on part of fortifi-cations, and let enemy in that way.The soldiers fought well. After theenemy entered many people were killed.Hussein Pasha Khalifa did not appearduring fight. He saw him afterwards,and asked for letter for Gordon. HusseinPasha Khalifa would not give one. Hesaid, The town is taken. Tell Gor-don what you have seen. I will writeto him no more. He was not wounded. He passed by east to Shendy, and thusacross to Debbeh. He says, * All thepeople want the old Government back,but are afraid of the Mahdis Arabs.After messengers returned to Khar-toum from Berber, Gordon heard thatthe enemy had brought 7,000 ardehsof dhoura to Gcreif, from Mesalamieh,with 11,000 men. He took threesteamers to bring boats, killed a greatmany of the enemy, and seized all the*
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18 186 CASSELUS HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE SOUDAy. dhoura. Gordons men did not fire tillthe enemy had expended ammunition.They then landed and defeated them.News has come to the Sultan of Dar-four that people there have given upthe Mahdi and elected Ibrahim Bey,cousin of Sultan, to be Sultan. MahdisVakeel asked for men, but was recalled.It is also reported that force aroundKhartoum have asked for support andhave been refused by Mahdi. On the 26th of July three patrollingsteamers received orders to proceed uponthe Nile from the first cataract, andforty men of the Royal Sussex Regi-ment were ordered down from Keneli(or Ghenneh) on the right bank of theriver to Assiout, to act as a guard forthem, and form a military base at thatpoint. If the story recorded in the publicprints of the treachery of the Mudir ofDongola and his fraternisation with theMahdi were true, he seems soon afterto have changed his mind, as we findin the Standard that, about the 8th ofAugust, he telegraphed to Cairo tha

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