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Troops embark from London for Egypt 30 August 1884

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Identifier: descriptiveportr02king (find matches)
Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ve as follows : Weakened and reduced to extremities, God in his mercy sent Gordon Pasha to us in the amidst of our calamities, or we should all have perished of hunger and been destroyed. Put sustained by his intelligence and great military skill, we have been preserved until now. That shows what Gordon was to his Mohammedan friends ; yet at this time he was writing, We appeared even as liars to the people of Khartoum, because nothing that he asked for was granted him. Finally, August 2G, he sent to the Khedive, to Sir Evelyn Baring, and to Nubar Pasha, this significant despatch : ,s.;ii EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. I am awaiting the arrival of British troops, in order to evacuate the Egyptian garrisons. Send me Zebehr Pasha, and pay him a yearly salary of £8,000. I shall surrender the Soudan to the Sultan as soon as two hundred thousand Turkish troops have arrived. If the rebels kill the Egyptians, you will be answerable for their blood. I require £300,000 for soldiers pay, my daily expenses being £1,500.
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EGYPT. Meanwhile it bad been at last determined in England to attempt the relief of Gordon. On the 5th of August, a credit of £300,000 was voted lo prepare for such an expedition, and Lord Wolseley, of Egypt, was directly after announced to command it. It was resolved to build a railway up the Nile valley. EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 831 Four hundred boats of light draught were ordered, and ship-yards at Liverpool,London, Hull, Hartlepool, and Dundee were busy with the noise of labor day and night; presently four hundred more were ordered. On the 30th of August the Nile was reported rising, and it was time things were on the move. Lord Northbrook was to accompany Wolseley so far as Cairo. There were preparations swiftly made in London for the departure of the troops, and there was great excitement as sonic favorite regiment embarked upon the Thames. Some troops were ordered from India, and the whole force to go south of Assouan, that is, above the cataracts, was determined to comprise eight thousand Br

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