The Ruin of the Soudan: Cause, Effect and Remedy: A Resumé of Events, 1883-1891S. Low, Marston & Company, 1892 - 407 páginas |
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Abyssinians affairs Amarars appointment Arabs army arrived Assouan attack authorities Baker BARING TO EARL Berber Berber road blockade British Cairo Captain Speedy Colonel Chermside Colonel Kitchener Colonel Stewart COMMODORE MOLYNEUX Consul December Dervishes despatch Dongola DRUMMOND WOLFF EARL GRANVILLE EARL GRANVILLE.-(Received Eastern Soudan Egypt Egyptian Government enemy evacuation expedition February force Foreign Office friendly garrison GORDON TO SIR GRANVILLE TO SIR GRANVILLE.-(Received by telegraph H.M.'s Government Hadendowas Handoub Hicks honour to inclose Inclosure instant instructions January Kassala Khartoum Khedive Kordofan letter LORD Lordship Mahdi Majesty's Government MAJOR-GENERAL GORDON March MARQUIS OF SALISBURY MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.-(Received Massowah ment merchants military Mudir Nile Nubar Pasha open trade opinion Osman Digna present Proclamation proposed province rebels received reopening Sanheit says Senaar sent Sheikh Sir F SIR H slave trade Soudan Soudanese Stephenson Suakin Tamai tion Tokar town tribes Trinkitat Wady Halfa Zebehr Pasha
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Página 274 - Sir, — I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the...
Página 92 - I consider myself free to act according to circumstances. I shall hold on here as long as I can, and if I can suppress the rebellion I shall do so ; if I cannot, I shall retire to the Equator...
Página 259 - My Lord, — I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that the...
Página 55 - It is evident that this we cannot secure them withont an inordinate expenditure of men and money. The Soudan is a useless possession, ever was so, and ever will be so. Larger than Germany, France and Spain together, and mostly barren, it cannot be governed except by a Dictator who may be good or bad. If bad he will cause constant revolts. No one who has ever lived in the Soudan can escape the reflection: "What a useless possession is this land!
Página 47 - You will consider yourself authorised and instructed to perform such other duties as the Egyptian government may desire to entrust to you, and as may be communicated to you by Sir E. Baring. You will be accompanied by Colonel Stewart, who will assist you in the duties thus confided to you.
Página 274 - Sir, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a telegram, dated the 4th January, from the Senior Officer at Aden, respecting the detention of the steam-ship général".
Página 52 - Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, through whom your reports to Her Majesty's Government should be sent, under flying seal. You will consider yourself authorized and instructed to perform such other duties as the Egyptian Government may desire to intrust to you, and as may be communicated to you by Sir E. Baring.
Página 66 - To the above may be added other clauses as may seem fit. PS — I think the decision of any Council of Notables for the selection of candidates for the post of my successor would be useless. || Zebehr's exile at Cairo for ten years, amidst all the late events, and his mixing with Europeans, must have had great effect on his character. || Zebehr's nomination, under the moral countenance of Her Majest's Government, would bring all merchants, European and others, back to the Soudan in a short time.
Página 53 - I understand that Her Majesty's Government have come to the irrevocable decision not to incur the very onerous duty of securing to the peoples of the Soudan a just future Government. That, as a consequence, Her Majesty's Government have determined to restore to these peoples their independence, and will no longer suffer the Egyptian Government to interfere with their affairs. 2. For this purpose, Her Majesty's Government have decided...
Página 80 - necessary to send an English officer of high authority to Khartoum with full powers to withdraw all garrisons in the Soudan and make the best arrangements possible for the future government of that country.