Chapter 2

THE FASHODA AFFAIR--A RED BRITISH LINE THROUGH AFRICA, 295

POSTSCRIPT, 334

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Brigadier-General H. A. Macdonald, C.B., D.S.O., _Frontispiece_

Bennet Burleigh, _To face page_ 1

Headquarters, Wady Halfa, 9

Darmali (British Brigade Summer Quarters), 23

Group of Staff Officers--Colonel Wingate in Centre, 34

Street in Dakhala, 53

Troops going to Wad Habeshi, 58

Wood Station (_en route_ to Omdurman), 69

Loading Up--Breaking Camp, 77

21st Lancers--Advance Guard, 81

Halt by the Way, 87

Slatin Pasha (on Foot), 89

Artillery going towards Omdurman, 125

Battle of Omdurman--Zereba Action, 151

Macdonald's Brigade advancing, 182

Sirdar directing Advance on Omdurman, 183

Khalifa's Captured Standard (Sirdar extreme left), 195

Chief Thoroughfare, Omdurman (Mulazim Wall, left; Osman Digna's House, right), 196

Effect of Shell Fire upon Wall (Mulazim Enclosure), 197

Khalifa's House, 217

Mahdi's Tomb--Effect of Lyddite Shells, 219

Interior Mahdi's Tomb (Grille around Sarcophagus), 221

Khalifa's Gallows (cutting down his Last Victim), 223

Neufeld on Gunboat "Sheik"--Cutting off his Ankle-Irons, 225

Khalifa's Chief Eunuch (surrenders in British Camp), 229

Fresh Batch Wounded and Unwounded Dervish Prisoners, Omdurman, 4th September 1898, 231

Neufeld, with Abyssinian Wife and Children; also Fellow Prisoner, 241

Distant View, Khartoum (from Blue Nile), 255

Hoisting Flags, Khartoum, 259

Col. H. Macdonald at Omdurman, with Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer of 1st Brigade, 291

MAPS AND PLANS.

General View Plan, "A," _page_ 173

Zereba Plan, "B," " 179

First Attack on Macdonald's Brigade, "C," Plate 1, " 187

Second Attack on Macdonald's Brigade, "D," Plate 2, " 191

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