Charles George GordonMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 255 páginas |
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Abbas Abu Hamed Abyssinia Arab assault attack Bahr Gazelle Balaklava Berber boats Cairo camels canal Central Africa Charles George Gordon Charles Gordon China Chinese Darfour death desert Dongola Egypt Egyptian Empire enemy England English evacuation Ever-victorious Army expedition faith fighting force French frontier garrison Gondokoro Government Governor-General Gravesend guns Highland honour hostile hundred miles Ireland Ismail Jakdul Khartoum Khedive King Kordofan Korosko labour lakes land later letters London looked Lord Wolseley Mahdi March ment Metemma mind misery months nation natives never night officers once Pacha palace passed possession provinces Quin-san Rahama reached rebels regiment revolt river Russian scene Sebastopol sent Shanghai sheikh siege slavery slaves soldiers Soo-chow Soudan steamers Suakim Taiping Taiping rebellion terrible things thought thousand tion tribes troops vast Wadi Halfa White Nile words writes Zebehr
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Página 75 - I know I shall leave China as poor as I entered it, but with the knowledge that through my weak instrumentality upwards of eighty to one hundred thousand lives have been spared.
Página 235 - I say, old fellow, let us know when we are to throw you the life-buoy. I know you have bobbed down two or three times, but it is a pity to throw you the life-buoy until you really are in extremis, and I want to know exactly, for I am a man brought up in a school of exactitude...
Página 177 - Acts have been, quite abortive, for the landlords will insert clauses to do away with their force. Any half-measures will only place the Government face to face with the people of Ireland as the champions of the landlord interest.
Página 177 - I must say from all accounts, and my own observation, that the state of our fellow-countrymen in the parts I have named is worse than that of any people in the world, let alone Europe.
Página 136 - ... with the sad conviction that no good could be done in those parts, and that it would have been better had no expedition ever been sent.
Página 28 - It is said that as the first rush was made upon the salient at the Redan, three old soldiers of the 41st Regiment entered with Colonel Windham. The three men were named Hartnady, Kennedy, and Pat Mahony ; the last, a gigantic grenadier, was shot dead as he entered, crying :
Página 79 - Afar in the ocean, towards the extremities of the northwest, There is a nation, or country, called England ; The clime is frigid, and you are compelled to approach the fire; The houses are so lofty that you may pluck the stars. The pious inhabitants respect the ceremonies of worship, And the virtuous among them ever read the sacred books.
Página 26 - More than a month straight on end," he writes. " It gets tedious after a time, but if anything is going on one does not mind." The opposing lines of trench and battery are now close together : 68-pounders, 32-pounders, 11 and 13-inch mortars, Lancaster guns, small cohorns, and rifles go on all day long. "When the 13-inch shell drops, you see timber, platforms, men, gabions, etc., all fly up in the air as if a mine had exploded. The Redan looks very sickly as we fire platoons of musketry all night...
Página 134 - No dinner after my long ride, but a quiet night, forgetting my miseries. At dawn I got up, and putting on the golden armour the Khedive gave me, went out to see my troops, and then mounted my horse, and with an escort of my robbers of Bashi-Bazouks, rode out to the camp of the other robbers three miles off. I was met by the son of Sebehr — a- nice looking lad of twenty-two years — and rode through the robber-bands.