. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. HA/AAll IN ASSOUAN. i EGYPTIAN DESEBTERS. 181 connection with this request, says thecorrespondent of the Standard, I maymention that Sir E. Wood recently re-marked to me that it does not matterwhether the required arms are sent ornot, as the Remington rifles and am-munition are so bad as to be worse to Assouan at this period, 200 deserteden masse from Cairo, and it was withthe greatest difficulty that the ^lajorcould get even seventy to start. Fortyof these deserted, and on the 16th ofJuly a detachment of twenty-four menof our 35 th Eegiment was or
. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. HA/AAll IN ASSOUAN. i EGYPTIAN DESEBTERS. 181 connection with this request, says thecorrespondent of the Standard, I maymention that Sir E. Wood recently re-marked to me that it does not matterwhether the required arms are sent ornot, as the Remington rifles and am-munition are so bad as to be worse to Assouan at this period, 200 deserteden masse from Cairo, and it was withthe greatest difficulty that the ^lajorcould get even seventy to start. Fortyof these deserted, and on the 16th ofJuly a detachment of twenty-four menof our 35 th Eegiment was ordered to. DERVISH OF THE SOrDAN. than useless. He states that this hasbeen, perhaps, the cause of much injus-tice to the Egyptian soldiers, who havebeen naturally afraid to use arms moredangerous to themselves than to theenemy. So many accidents occurredwith them that three British officers,who were instructing the men in mus-ketry, declined to continue the an example of the bad spiritexisting in the troops of the regularEgyptian army, when a battalion ofTiuks, under Major Grant, was ordered guard the remainder at Assiout, tillthey could be sent back in chains toCairo. Major Grant followed thirty-two Turks across tlie river in a boat,attended by only ten horsemen. Hav-ing come up with them at a Sheikhshouse, he demanded surrender, and, onrefusal, shot one dead and wounded twoothers, whereupon the rest on every occasion the cowardice,incapacity, aud insubordination of theseraw and hastily - collected Egyptiantroops were painfully apparent. 182 CHAPTER XX. GORDON AND THE M
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