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Updated: June 13, 2025

But I must say I shall be better pleased if he sends for me when the troops advance upon Khartoum." The order came in due course, and Burnaby was riding on to the relief of Gordon when his journey was stopped at Abu-Klea. He was attached to the staff of General Stewart, whose little force of six-thousand-odd men was suddenly surrounded by a body of fanatical Arabs, nine thousand strong.

Sir Henry W. (Henry William) Lucy - Faces and Places