A DESPERATE RISK.
* Nine hundred to ten thousand is good long odds, and yet those were the number°engaged m the recent battle of Gubat m the* Soudan. The position is thus described :— " Surely there never was Bush a fight as that which was fought on Monday, Jan. 19, 1885, on the road to Gubat near Meteraneh, on the Nile. Nine hundred wearied, worn out, starved and thirsty men, formed m a square, with no defence whatever, standing up, a broad and easy mark fer the enemy's sharpshooters, marched out into open at 3 p.m., m the desperate hope of reachin? the water of the Nile, sure and certain that if they fail m that four mile march, the whole of Lord Wolseley's arrangements would collapse, the detachments at the zareba at Abu Elea and Gukdalwouldbe destroyed intnrn.and not a surviyor^would remain to tell the tale !"
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 20 April 1885, Page 3
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145A DESPERATE RISK. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 20 April 1885, Page 3
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