. A short history of England and the British Empire. es. This idea did notoriginate with Joseph Cham-berlain, but he became mostprominently identified withit. Imperialism, the beliefthat the colonies are desira-ble and even necessary toEngland, is widely held inGreat It has even „. ,. found a literary Kipling. J exponent i n Rudyard Kipling, whose tales and poems deal largely with England over the seas and with the greatness of the British 546. The Reconquest of the Soudan. 1898. Joseph Chamberlain also believed to the empire it was new minis-try reso
. A short history of England and the British Empire. es. This idea did notoriginate with Joseph Cham-berlain, but he became mostprominently identified withit. Imperialism, the beliefthat the colonies are desira-ble and even necessary toEngland, is widely held inGreat It has even „. ,. found a literary Kipling. J exponent i n Rudyard Kipling, whose tales and poems deal largely with England over the seas and with the greatness of the British 546. The Reconquest of the Soudan. 1898. Joseph Chamberlain also believed to the empire it was new minis-try resolved to reconquer theSoudan. In 1896 a forceunder the command of Gen-eral Kitchener began tomove up the Nile advance was slow, forKitchener built a railroad as he went forward, so as to be sure of 1 Cheyney, Nos. 454-457; Tuell and Hatch, No. 80. 2 Typical poems are Fuzzy-Wuzzy, The Sons of the Widow, Gunga Din, The NativeBorn, The Young British Soldier, Pagett, , Mandalay, and Recessional. in addingwherever Kitchener inthe The Suez Canal THE BOERS AND THE OUTLANDERS 6o5 supplies for the campaign. In 1898 he reached the vicinityof Khartoum and defeated the successor of the in a battle near Omdurman on the oppo- 1898- site side of the Nile. Thisdefeat virtually ended thenative control of the Kitchener was sentout by the Egyptian gov-ernment, but his forceswere composed of Englishand Egyptian soldiers. Theflags of England and Egyptwere both raised over thereconquered the JointSoudan is held occupation ofjointly by the the Soudan-two countries; but thepower of the khedive inCentral Africa is scarcelymore than a pretense: theSoudan is governed byBritish officials and is prop-erly counted as belongingto the British The Boers and the Outlanders. The Boers weredispleased with the advance of Cecil Rhodes and his tradingcompany into Rhodesia; but the invasion of the Rand by theEuropean fortune-hunte
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