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Title: With Kitchener in the Soudan
A Story of Atbara and Omdurman

Author: G. A. Henty

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WITH KITCHENER IN THE SOUDAN:

A Story of Atbara and Omdurman

by

G. A. HENTY.

Contents

Preface.
Chapter 1: Disinherited.
Chapter 2: The Rising In Alexandria.
Chapter 3: A Terrible Disaster.
Chapter 4: An Appointment.
Chapter 5: Southward.
Chapter 6: Gregory Volunteers.
Chapter 7: To Metemmeh.
Chapter 8: Among The Dervishes.
Chapter 9: Safely Back.
Chapter 10: Afloat.
Chapter 11: A Prisoner.
Chapter 12: The Battle Of Atbara.
Chapter 13: The Final Advance.
Chapter 14: Omdurman.
Chapter 15: Khartoum.
Chapter 16: A Voice From The Dead.
Chapter 17: A Fugitive.
Chapter 18: A Hakim.
Chapter 19: The Last Page.
Chapter 20: A Momentous Communication.
Chapter 21: Gedareh.
Chapter 22: The Crowning Victory.
Chapter 23: An Unexpected Discovery.

Preface.

The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most
difficult, and at the same time the most successful, enterprises ever
undertaken. The task of carrying an army hundreds of miles across a
waterless desert; conveying it up a great river, bristling with
obstacles; defeating an enormously superior force, unsurpassed in the
world for courage; and, finally, killing the leader of the enemy and
crushing out the last spark of opposition; was a stupendous one.

After the death of Gordon, and the retirement of the British troops,
there was no force in existence that could have barred the advance of
the fanatical hord