THE FALL OF KHARTOUM.
GORDON'S TERRIBLE POSITION.
'In a description of the fall of Khnr : toum, we find the following er's diary, btief and f rasrniißhtary as i t -is, shows the ; great' Gordon ! perhflps at his'hest-^-tiie man -of. -.undaunted. 'liop?j' of uriconjquerable resolution, of infinite resource. It shows ho>v the rebejs gradually tKiQkened round the city, occupying .the northern - brink, right opposite the hospital, the barracks^ and ; Government House— how they crossed the stream and fortified 'theniseiyes at Buri. a place about a mile, or more distant from the eastern comer of the \ entrenchments ; how Gordon and his companions were saddened by the news, of the fall of B.orber, and how . Gordon's .steamers swept the Nile northwards and southwards for . |rrea* distances, tcaptnring stores of grain, dispersing rebel hosts, and blowing tfeeir forts to pieces.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 3
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136THE FALL OF KHARTOUM. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 3
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