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Title: Too late for Gordon and Khartoum; the testimony of an independent eye-witness of the heroic efforts for their rescue and relief. With maps and plans and several unpublished letters of the late General Gordon
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Macdonald, Alexander, F.R.G.S Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885
Subjects: Khartoum Relief Expedition, 1884-1885
Publisher: London : J. Murray
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Xondon,- JoftrvMnrrtry, Albemarle Street. CH. XVI. POINTS OF CONTACT 237 not check their progress. On still came these compactmasses of spearmen with a low, murmuring cry like thesound of many waters. They are now within a hundredyards diagonally of the left front corner. The massescharging along lines 1, 2,3 had been exposed all the timeto the full fire of the Guards and Mounted Infantry onthe front face, while line 2 was also exposed to theMounted Infantry companies in the left face. Theeffect of this sharp fire was soon seen in the gapsmade in the ranks of these brave Arabs. The massesmoving along the lines 1 and 2 were so checked bythis fire that they did not press home their charges.That moving along line 3 swerved under it to the right,and although taken in flank at the positions indicatedbetween the sectional (red) lines B and D, still continuedits advance, reaching the left face of the square, ac-cording to Captain Verners lines on the plan, at ornear the company of the Lancer

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