. Battles of the nineteenth century . always half the battleto be able to conceal your plans and numbersfrom the enemy. A few days previouslyArabi had sent out his second-in-command,Mahmoud Fehmi Pasha, a great engineerand reader of military signs, to discover thestrength and dispositions of Graham, but by acurious accident he fell into the hands of theEnglish and never returned to his own this capture Arabi himself afterwards attri-buted the sole blame of his not having been battle. Come they also did with right goodwill, for they were all burning for a fight, butonly to hear that the
. Battles of the nineteenth century . always half the battleto be able to conceal your plans and numbersfrom the enemy. A few days previouslyArabi had sent out his second-in-command,Mahmoud Fehmi Pasha, a great engineerand reader of military signs, to discover thestrength and dispositions of Graham, but by acurious accident he fell into the hands of theEnglish and never returned to his own this capture Arabi himself afterwards attri-buted the sole blame of his not having been battle. Come they also did with right goodwill, for they were all burning for a fight, butonly to hear that the Egyptians, after usingtheir guns for some time, had apparently retiredagain behind their sand-hills ; so back they wentto Mehsameh and off-saddled, again. The heat was terrific, and bucketfuls of waterfrom the canal had to be poured on the heads ofthe English artillerists to enable them to stickto their guns. Sunstrokes were numerous, butour men bore all their sufferings with a fortitudetruly heroic. The scorching heat was probably. able to oust the audacious English from theiradvanced post at Kassassin—and the incidentwill show how very important it must always bein warfare to seize and detain spies. Grahams force at Kassassin was not a largeone (under 2,000), consisting mainly of a com-pany of Royal Marine Artillery, the Duke ofCornwalls regiment, the York and Lancasters,with some mounted infantry and a few guns,one of which, under Captain Tucker, wasmounted on a railway truck. But the Egyptians,taking a leaf out of our own book of war, hadby this time imitated us in this respect—thoughthey were very bad range-finders, and did uslittle harm. Drury Lowes Cavalr}^ Brigade, consisting ofthe 7th Dragoon Guards and three squadronsof Household Cavalry (contributed by the istand 2nd Life Guards, and Blues, or HorseGuards, respectively) were stationed some milesto the rear at Mehsameh, and Graham helio-graphed to these splendid troopers to come andhelp him on his right flank in
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