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357.
"To the Sirdar unstinted honour is duo and will be paid
for the wonderful genius that conceived and carried out
plans for an expedition of no remarkable a` character, "
On his return to England, Kitchener was greeted with
a aeries ofbanquets and celebrations,
extreme radical press was disgustod#
(`)
Only the
Omdurman was all the popular for having redeemed
the humiliation of Khartoum. Staovona could rem aber
"thirteen or fourtoen years ago being enormously proud
and joyful about Tamai and Abu Ilea! " - the victories
of the 1884-5 campaign,
(3)
Fie added "Now that the long
struggle is crowned vith victory we may look back on those
fourteen indomitable years as one of the highest
achievements of our race"
(4)
The war in the Sudan was a micrcocm of all the
adventure and heroics no much admired at the time, -
Steovons wrote of the crows of the gun boats which
attacked the Dervishes on the Pilo, "they were just the
(1) Banff, 9th September 1898.
(2) Se® D ilv
-Mail,
27th October 1898.
(3) O. W. Stßovena, Op cit. V. 4.
(4) ibid. p. 21.