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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COLONEL FARQUHAR, CHIEF OF HICKS PASHAs STAFF. for the defence of the city, and therepression of an expected revolt, bycalling in all the outlying garrisons. He and the Times correspondent werethe only two Britons surviving in theSoudan, and by that time Kordofanwas virtually lost. With Ilickss armythe military resources of the Soudanwere almost annihilated; and thereseemed to be nothing to resist theonward progress of a Prophet (false orotherwise) who carried with him the the only great and powerful Messiah,announced of old by Mohammed him-self; that the Sultan of Constantinoplewas no more the supreme Caliph ; thatit was he—Mohammed Achmet Shem-seddin; and he ordered his own nameto be invoked in prayer, after that ofAllah. )\I. Marquet gives an explanation ofthe course of Hicks Pashas army,gathered from the best evidence whichcould be collected at Khartoum, and
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78 CASSELL8 HISTORY OF TEE WAR IN THE SOUDAX. we give it here for wliat it may bewort) I. Four (lays prior to the battle, dis-putes arose between Hicks Pasha andAladeen Pasha; the former, relying ona report made by Colonel Farquhar,proposed to take a route north of themountains, direct on El Obeid ; but thelatter, deceived by the chief cameldriver, proposed to adopt the southernroute to Melbas, and to rest at a lakethere before attacking. The partieseventually separated, each taking hiscolvmn his own route. Hicks Pashamet and repulsed the enemy, but hear-ing firing in the direction of AladeenPashas force, went to his succour. Inthe dark the two columns took eachother for the enemy. There was ageneral confusion, and at daybreak,when exhausted and demoralised, thetroops were easily surrounded andstarved out by the hordes of theenemy. M, Marquet discredited the firstrumour that there were three survi-vors of the Egyptian force, whichmay be explained by the fact that thefollowing European

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