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Title: Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) Battles Military history Military art and science Naval battles Naval history Naval art and science Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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its immediate tributaries, the Blue Nile,the Atbara and Sobat rivers, together with the countrybetween the Nile and the Red Sea, north of the boundaryof Abyssinia. It may be roughly said to have an area of2,500,000 square miles, with a population of about 12,-000,000. One fourth of the inhabitants are Arabs andkindred tribes, and the remaining 9,000,000 are negroes.All the Arabs and many of the negroes are Moslems, butit is probable that fully half of the inhabitants of the Sou-dan do not belong to the religion of Mohammed, thoughit has made rapid strides among them during the lasttwenty years. From the days of Moses to the present time the rulersof Egypt have been the reverse of mild in their treatmentof their subjects. In all ages the Egyptian peasantry havebeen regarded as the property of the sovereign ; the manychanges of dynasty have made little difference in the lotof the laboring classes in the most fertile land of theglobe. From the heights of the pyramids forty centuries 450
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45i 452 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. look down upon us, and they are forty centuries of almostunvarying oppression. In the fourth dynasty of the an-cient empire the pyramids were built by the unpaid laborof the people, and in the same way the great canal con-necting Alexandria with the Nile was made by Moham-med Ali Pasha, the founder of the dynasty which nowoccupies the khedivial throne. The splendors of the an-cient rulers have been imitated by those of modern times,and the result is that the country is oppressively burdenedwith taxation and hopelessly involved in debt. At presentthe foreign debt of the country exceeds £ 100,000,000, or$500,000,000, without including the Moukabalah, or forcedinterior debt, which amounts to many millions more. Thepopulation of Egypt proper is a little more than 5,000,000,so that the national indebtedness exceeds $100 for eachand every man, woman, and child in the country. Theland is wonderfully fertile, producing ordinarily threecrops a year ; b

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