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greatest since the Indian Mutiny. "
(1)
And the Daily
1 own g "Seldom within the memory of living man has the
news of such national disaster reached England as that
which was made known to the public yesterday. "
with that other Imperial catastrophe the Indian Mutiny,
(2)
Comparisons
were frequent. The initial response from Liberal as well
an Conservative papers, was a
lofty determination to
continue with the Sudan campaign until the ! "tahdi had been
defeated. The Pell Mail Gazette proclaimed, # "Every nerve
should be strained to prove that the disaster has only
stiffened our resolution to hold aloft the flag of England
in face of every foe... Lngland must not and will not, turn
her back before a savage enemy. "
ý3)
The tone of the
Liberal provincial paper, the Leodr Hereury was almost
exactly the came, "We too can show the world that we are
made of the same stuff as the heroes of the Nile and that
having undertaken a task which came to un in the path of
(1) Ibid.
(2) Daily flows, 6th February 1865.
(3) Pall Hall
Gazette. 5th February 1885.