140-mile

Updated: May 29, 2025

The last three days of the journey, in fact, became a sort of "go-as-you-please" tramp. To inexperience and want of wise forethought may be set down most of the difficulties, hardships, and losses that befell that column on its 140-mile march south, whereof later.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan