The Quarterly Review, Volume 159William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1885 |
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... Khartoum . The history of the siege , we feel , has yet to be written . It is known that a large mass of information under Gordon's own hand has been saved from destruction , and it is not too much to hope that details of great ...
... Khartoum . The history of the siege , we feel , has yet to be written . It is known that a large mass of information under Gordon's own hand has been saved from destruction , and it is not too much to hope that details of great ...
Page 474
... Khartoum : — ' I think that with nations , as with us , in spiritual things there must be shedding of blood ere freedom comes ; of this there has been much shed . Hicks had 10,000 men who marched out ; not one escaped . All their bones ...
... Khartoum : — ' I think that with nations , as with us , in spiritual things there must be shedding of blood ere freedom comes ; of this there has been much shed . Hicks had 10,000 men who marched out ; not one escaped . All their bones ...
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... Khartoum's defence , seems to intensify as time goes on . The most valuable time was lost , and the dead silence which reigned over the space between us and Khartoum was never broken by a bugle call nor the tramp of a single soldier ...
... Khartoum's defence , seems to intensify as time goes on . The most valuable time was lost , and the dead silence which reigned over the space between us and Khartoum was never broken by a bugle call nor the tramp of a single soldier ...
Contents
London 1884 | 450 |
Hansards Parliamentary Debates 18821884 | 480 |
Parliamentary Debates March 1885 | 527 |
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