The Downfall of the Dervishes: Being a Sketch of the Final Sudan Campaign of 1898 |
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amid amongst Arab army Atbara attack baggage Baggara bank barges Baring Gould battalions battery battle BATTLE OF OMDURMAN biscuit body bottle brave brigade British bushes Cairo camp campaign cavalry Colonel comrades correspondents creatures Cross Crown 8vo day's dead delightful Demy 8vo Dervish bullets Dervishes desert donkeys E. F. BENSON Egyptian cavalry enemy excellent Fcap fell fighting fire front Gaalin Gebel Surgham gibbehs gunboats guns Gyppy H. C. BEECHING halt horse hundred yards Illustrated Kerreri Khalifa's Khartum Lancashire Fusiliers Lancers large number Lee-Metfords Mahdi's Maxims Metemmeh miles morning native night Nile officers Omdurman one's rain realised ridge rifles river round sand scorpion Second Edition seemed servants Sheikh shell shot side Sirdar sleep soldier spear speedily splendid stream struck Sudan Sudan campaign Sudanese suddenly sword tent thousand Tommies Tommy Atkins troops volleys Wad Hamed Wady Wady Halfa wounded zeriba