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Excerpt from The War in the Soudan and the Causes Which Led to It: With Short Biographical Sketches of the Principal Personages Engaged
For ten mortal hours the deafening thunder is kept up. One by one the great forts are silenced. The largest of the Egyptian cannons are turned on end like pop-guns. The solid masonry of the parapets yawn with great holes. The light-house has holes in it visible at two miles' distance. Powder magazines have been blown up, and where were once trim fortifications, are now masses of ruins. But what is it all about? What is England doing in this part of the world, smashing forts, shelling soldiery, and doing damage that will cost some millions of dollars to rebuild T To answer this I must trouble you, my reader, with a few dry facts. We shall not linger over them. But before it is possible to know why England is now in Egypt, why she is warring against the Mahdi, why She has voluntarily spent been content to lose some of her bravest generals, and risked the lives of thousands of her soldiers in a foreign country that does not belong to her and probably never will belong to her, it is necessary to go beneath the surface, and to inquire into a few things not quite so interesting as the destroying of forts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
