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Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum written by Alexander Macdonald (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum  The Testimony of an Independent Eye witness

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum The Testimony of an Independent Eye witness written by Alexander Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles George Gordon
  • Publisher : Andesite Press
  • Release : 2015-08-11
  • ISBN : 9781296656935
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum written by Charles George Gordon and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book TOO LATE FOR GORDON AND KHARTOUM

Download or read book TOO LATE FOR GORDON AND KHARTOUM written by ALEX MACDONALD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum written by Charles George Gordon and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum  the Testimony of an Independent Eye witness of the Heroic Efforts for Their Rescue and Relief  With Maps and Plans and Several Unpublished Letters of the Late General Gordon

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum the Testimony of an Independent Eye witness of the Heroic Efforts for Their Rescue and Relief With Maps and Plans and Several Unpublished Letters of the Late General Gordon written by Alexander F R G S MacDonald and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum  The Testimony of an Independent Eye Witness of the Heroic Efforts for Their Rescue and Relief  with Maps and Plans a

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum The Testimony of an Independent Eye Witness of the Heroic Efforts for Their Rescue and Relief with Maps and Plans a written by Alexander MacDonald and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum written by Alex; Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum: The Testimony of an Independent Eye-Witness of the Heroic for Their Rescue and Relief The chief object of the author in this volume is to give his readers a more complete account of the recent Nile Expedition than either himself or the Press colleagues who accompanied him were at the time able to supply. Owing to the demand for the rapid despatch of news made by the journalism of the present day, the telegrams of war correspondents take precedence over their letters. These telegrams are unsatisfactory as a medium of information, for they comprise only a synopsis of the most important current events. Under the trying circumstances of the expedition, and owing to the rapidity with which its events followed one another during the period of active operations, it was physically and mentally impossible to take into account in our subsequent despatches by mail, and deal satisfactorily with, the subsidiary events which so largely contributed to the failure of the heroic struggle made by Lord Wolseley and the force he commanded to rescue Gordon and his brave garrison from the fate which befell them. Even his lordships published despatches were in this respect, and evidently from the same causes, regarded as unsatisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum written by Alexander Macdonald (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum  the Testimony of an Independent Eye witness of the Heroic Efforts for Their Rescue and Relief  by Alex  Macdonald     With    Several Unpublished Letters of the Late General Gordon

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum the Testimony of an Independent Eye witness of the Heroic Efforts for Their Rescue and Relief by Alex Macdonald With Several Unpublished Letters of the Late General Gordon written by Alexander Macdonald (de la Société royale de géographie.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum

Download or read book Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum written by Alexander Macdonald (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Khartoum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Asher
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2006-11-02
  • ISBN : 0141910100
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Khartoum written by Michael Asher and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result was a national scandal that shocked the Queen and led to the fall of the British government. Twelve years later it was the brilliant Herbert Kitchener who struck back. Achieving the impossible he built a railway across the desert to transport his troops to the final devastating confrontation at Omdurman in 1898. Desert explorer and author Michael Asher has reconstructed this classic tale in vivid detail. Having covered every inch of the ground and examined all eyewitness reports, he brings to bear new evidence questioning several accepted aspects of the story. The result is an account that sheds new light on the most riveting tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times.

Book Outsourcing African Labor

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  • Author : Jeffrey Gunn
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2021-07-19
  • ISBN : 3110680335
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Outsourcing African Labor written by Jeffrey Gunn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru’s familiarity with European trade on the Kru Coast (modern Liberia) from at least the sixteenth century played a fundamental role in their decision to expand their wage earning opportunities under contract with the British. The establishment of Freetown in 1792 enabled the Kru to engage in systematized work for British merchants, ship captains, and naval officers. Kru workers increased their migration to Freetown establishing what appears to be their first permanent labouring community beyond their homeland on the Kru Coast. Their community in Freetown known as Krutown provided a readily available labour pool and ensured their regular employment on board British commercial ships and Royal Navy vessels circumnavigating the Atlantic and beyond. In the process, the Kru established a network of Krutowns and community settlements in many Atlantic ports including Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Ascension Island, Cape of Good Hope, and in the British Caribbean in Demerara and Port of Spain. Outsourcing African Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nurtured diasporas and staffed a vast network of workplaces. As the Kru formed permanent and transient working communities around the Atlantic and in the British Caribbean, they underwent several phases of social, political, and economic innovation, which ultimately overcame a decline in employment in their homeland on the Kru Coast by the end of the nineteenth century by increasing employment in their diaspora. There were unique features of the Kru migrant labour force that characterized all phases of its expansion. The migration was virtually entirely male, and at a time when slavery was widespread and the slave trade was subjected to the abolition campaign of the British Navy, Kru workers were free with an expertise in manning seaborne craft and porterage. Kru carried letters from previous captains as testimonies of their reliability and work ethic or they worked under the supervision of experienced workers who effectively served as references for employment. They worked for contractual periods of between six months and five years for which they were paid wages. The Kru thereby stand out as an anomaly in the history of Atlantic trade when compared with the much larger diasporas of enslaved Africans.

Book Library Bulletin

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  • Author : University of Aberdeen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 814 pages

Download or read book Library Bulletin written by University of Aberdeen and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aberdeen University Library Bulletin

Download or read book Aberdeen University Library Bulletin written by University of Aberdeen. Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library      I  P

Download or read book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library I P written by Dennis O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Reach of Empire

Download or read book Beyond the Reach of Empire written by Mike Snook and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule. It goes on to explain how and why the mission backfired, and then homes in on Sir Garnet Wolseley's planning and execution of the long-delayed Gordon Relief Expedition which arrived, according to popular myth, only two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed. Colonel Mike Snook's narrative is characterized by scrupulous attention to detail, an instinctive grasp of the period, and an intimate understanding of its setting. The author argues compellingly that the Khartoum campaign was mismanaged from the outset. The outcome is the exoneration of Colonel Sir Charles Wilson, the man cast in the role of scapegoat, and an indictment of Wolseley's generalship over the course of the last and most deeply flawed campaign of his career. Full review available at http://www.warhistoryonline.com/reviews/beyond-reach-empire-wolseleys-failed-campaign-save-gordon-khartoum-review-mark-barnes.html (please copy and paste into your browser) As featured in Wye Local Magazine.