id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 41744 Royle, Charles The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 .txt text/plain 237530 10921 69 force of Arabi's cavalry, followed by infantry, advanced towards the What had been taking place at Suez was reported in a letter from Mr. West, the British Consul, to Lord Granville, from which the following command of the troops in the Eastern Soudan, left Souakim with 550 men had attacked Gordon's force at Omdurman opposite Khartoum, a few days British and Egyptian troops, was formed, and placed under the command of Dervish force attacked with men, mounted and on foot, and one gun. enemy were seen advancing, and H.M.S. _Dolphin_ opened fire at 10 a.m. The Egyptian forces, to the number of 450 men, advanced to endeavour to force up to 750 British troops, 2,000 Egyptians, and 2,000 Soudanese. cleared of the Dervish force, which left some 900 men killed in and occupied in force, but as the troops advanced the enemy, who had ./cache/41744.txt ./txt/41744.txt