With The Camel Corps Up The Nile

Gleichen, Count - LIEUT.,GENADIER GUARDS

ISBN 10: 1843428199 / ISBN 13: 9781843428190

Verlag: The Naval and Military Press Ltd, 2009

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Titel: With The Camel Corps Up The Nile

Verlag: The Naval and Military Press Ltd

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Very Good

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An intriguing account of the part played by the Camel Corps in the 1885 expedition mounted - too late, in the author’s opinion - by the Gladstone Government in the forlorn hope of saving Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdi, and rescuing General Gordon. Gleichen was an aristocratic officer of the Grenadier Guards seconded - to his great joy - to the Camel Corps from garrison duty in Dublin. His book is a record of battles fought and won, of dangers run and difficulties overcome - and of ultimate frustration when the ‘worst possible news’ arrives of Gordon’s death. En route the reader learns a great deal about the behaviour and management of camels. With four appendices on the Camel Corp’s composition and losses, and illustrated with the author’s own talented and witty drawings and a map.