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In The River War, Winston Churchill recounts a critical but often overlooked episode from the days when the British Empire was at the height of its power: the operations directed by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum on the Upper Nile from 1896 to 1899, which led to England's reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan. After the 1881 rebellion of the Mahdi had ...
In The River War, Winston Churchill recounts the operations directed by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum on the Upper Nile from 1896 to 1899 that led to England's reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan. Churchill was present at the decisive battle of Omdurman, and he wrote this book while he was still a young cavalry officer
10 de nov. de 2014 · In 1898 Winston Churchill was a young lieutenant with the 21st Lancers, riding south with General Herbert Horatio Kitchener’s army to reclaim Sudan from the Mahdist forces that had controlled it for more than a decade. Kitchener had tried to thwart Churchill’s posting, having heard of his reputation as an upstart and war correspondent, but ...
The traveller clings to the strong river as to an old friend, staunch in the hour of need. All the world blazes, but here is shade. The deserts are hot, but the Nile is cool. The land is parched, but here is abundant water. The picture painted in burnt sienna is relieved by a grateful flash of green.
Lyman's Red River War. 1,188 likes · 125 talking about this. An incredible piece of war history in the Texas Panhandle.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan ( De Rivieroorlog: Een Historisch Verslag van de Herovering van Soedan) is een boek uit 1899 geschreven door Winston Churchill in de tijd dat hij officier was in het British Army (25 jaar oud). The River War was het tweede boek van Churchill, na The Story of the Malakand Field ...
Churchill comments at length on the mechanisation of war with use of the telegraph, railroad, and a new generation of weaponry. been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades.
