[411] Sudan Campaign, 1896-97, by "An Officer," p. 20.
[412] Ibid, p. 54.
[413] The Downfall of the Dervishes, by E. N. Bennett, M.A., p. 23.
[414] The Egyptian Sudan: its Loss and Recovery, by H. S. L. Alford and W. D. Sword, ch. iv.
[415] Some accounts state that the Lancers had no scouts, but "an officer" denies this (Sudan Campaign, 1896-99, p. 198).
[416] The general opinion of the army was that the charge of the Lancers "was magnificent, but was not war." See G.W. Steevens' With Kitchener to Khartum, ch. xxxii.
[417] See Mr. Winston Churchill's The River War, vol. ii. pp. 160-163, for the help given by the Lincolns.
[418] See an unsigned article in the Contemporary Review for Dec. 1897.
[419] Parl. Papers, Egypt, No. 2 (1898), pp. 13-14.
[420] The Earl of Kimberley's reply of Aug. 14, 1894, to M. Hanotaux, is very weak on this topic. Parl. Papers, Egypt, No. 2 (1898), pp. 14-15.