2009, ISBN: 9781437352399

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1885Original Publisher: Paul, Trench Subjects: SudanSaw?kin (Sudan)Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origi… Mehr…

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1885Original Publisher: Paul, Trench Subjects: SudanSaw?kin (Sudan)Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. TOKAK AND General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1885Original Publisher: Paul, Trench Subjects: SudanSaw?kin (Sudan)Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. TOKAK AND SINKAT. Suleiman Pasha - Soudas Fortresses - Defeat Of The Egyptians - Mahomed Tahik Pash. v - Relief Sent To Tokae - Osman Dioma's Claim To Direct Inspiration - Another Egyptian Reverse. The news of the disaster to Hicks Pasha spread like wildfire through all the Soudan, west and east, and in the country about. The road from Suakim to Berber and thence to Khartoum, vid the Nile, which forms the great trade route to Central Africa, became instantly unsafe, commotions ensued everywhere, culminating, in Eastern Soudan, into the rise of the Mahdi's brother-in-law, Osrnan Digma, the beleaguering of the towns of Sinkat and Tokar, and even of Suakim itself. Suleiman Pasha, having been removed from Khartoum, became the Governor-General of Eastern Soudan, a vast district which extends from Suakim to Massowah along the coast of the Red Sea and inland to the Mokran river. To him is principally due that the insurrection round about him took such great proportions. The Pasha is a thorough specimen of the old Turk - a very brave man, but one who would never take time by the forelock or wisdom by the experience of others; his pet aversion, too, being action on his own responsibility. Nobody can tell what induced hirn to do so, but he left a garrison of four hundred men, with all their women and children, at Sinkat. Now, the latter place has no strategical value whatever, nor has it any commercial; it is merely a hill where a small number of the richer inhabitants of Suakim used to spend Books, , Three-Months-in-the-Soudan~~Ernestine-Sartorius, 999999999, Three Months in the Soudan, Ernestine Sartorius, 1437352391, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781437352399

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginal… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work., Anthologies (non-poetry)<

ISBN: 9781437352399

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginal… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work., Anthologies (non-poetry)<

ISBN: 9781437352399

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginal… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.<

2008, ISBN: 1437352391

Kartoniert / Broschiert HISTORY / Essays, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:Kessinger Publishing, LLC]