Author: Walter Jerrold
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786251574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Includes 8 illustrations. Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum still stands as one of the great generals produced by Britain. His career was marked by great deeds, and great controversies. The son of a military family, he trained at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich before his first trip to the Middle East surveying in Palestine in 1874. He joined the newly formed Egyptian Army in 1883, which was in reality controlled by the British, and embarked on campaign in Sudan. He was part of the failed Gordon relief expedition in 1884, and learned a great deal of the area, its people and the military problems of fighting in the arid desert. By 1892 he was Sirdar, head of the Egyptian army, he was given command of the expedition to crush the self-appointed Mahdi who had taken control of large parts of Sudan. It was during this campaign that he gained public and Royal attention after the victories of Atbara and Omdurman that crushed the revolt of the Mahdi. He served as Lord Robert’s second in command during the Boer War and served with distinction and much success, although his institution of concentration camps caused great outrage and awful civilian distress. Perhaps his greatest services were during the First World War, as Secretary of State for War, fashioning a great civilian army to fight the militarised hordes of Germany in France and Flanders. He may have gained even greater fame, but was tragically lost at sea when the H.M.S. Hampshire was torpedoed in 1916. An excellent short biography.
Earl Kitchener Of Khartoum: The Story Of His Life [Illustrated Edition]
Author: Walter Jerrold
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786251574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Includes 8 illustrations. Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum still stands as one of the great generals produced by Britain. His career was marked by great deeds, and great controversies. The son of a military family, he trained at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich before his first trip to the Middle East surveying in Palestine in 1874. He joined the newly formed Egyptian Army in 1883, which was in reality controlled by the British, and embarked on campaign in Sudan. He was part of the failed Gordon relief expedition in 1884, and learned a great deal of the area, its people and the military problems of fighting in the arid desert. By 1892 he was Sirdar, head of the Egyptian army, he was given command of the expedition to crush the self-appointed Mahdi who had taken control of large parts of Sudan. It was during this campaign that he gained public and Royal attention after the victories of Atbara and Omdurman that crushed the revolt of the Mahdi. He served as Lord Robert’s second in command during the Boer War and served with distinction and much success, although his institution of concentration camps caused great outrage and awful civilian distress. Perhaps his greatest services were during the First World War, as Secretary of State for War, fashioning a great civilian army to fight the militarised hordes of Germany in France and Flanders. He may have gained even greater fame, but was tragically lost at sea when the H.M.S. Hampshire was torpedoed in 1916. An excellent short biography.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786251574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Includes 8 illustrations. Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum still stands as one of the great generals produced by Britain. His career was marked by great deeds, and great controversies. The son of a military family, he trained at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich before his first trip to the Middle East surveying in Palestine in 1874. He joined the newly formed Egyptian Army in 1883, which was in reality controlled by the British, and embarked on campaign in Sudan. He was part of the failed Gordon relief expedition in 1884, and learned a great deal of the area, its people and the military problems of fighting in the arid desert. By 1892 he was Sirdar, head of the Egyptian army, he was given command of the expedition to crush the self-appointed Mahdi who had taken control of large parts of Sudan. It was during this campaign that he gained public and Royal attention after the victories of Atbara and Omdurman that crushed the revolt of the Mahdi. He served as Lord Robert’s second in command during the Boer War and served with distinction and much success, although his institution of concentration camps caused great outrage and awful civilian distress. Perhaps his greatest services were during the First World War, as Secretary of State for War, fashioning a great civilian army to fight the militarised hordes of Germany in France and Flanders. He may have gained even greater fame, but was tragically lost at sea when the H.M.S. Hampshire was torpedoed in 1916. An excellent short biography.
EARL KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM
Author: WALTER. JERROLD
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033622896
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9781033622896
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Passing of Kitchener of Khartoum
Author: Daniel Jas Andrews
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Kitchener Enigma
Author: Trevor Royle
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750968877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical archaeologist, his attachment to the Arab cause and on the infamous struggle with Lord Curzon over control of the army in India. In particular, Royle reassesses Kitchener's role in the Great War, presenting his phenomenally successful recruitment campaign – 'Your Country Needs You' – as a major contribution to the Allied victory and rehabilitating him as a brilliant strategist who understood the importance of fighting the war on multiple fronts.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750968877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical archaeologist, his attachment to the Arab cause and on the infamous struggle with Lord Curzon over control of the army in India. In particular, Royle reassesses Kitchener's role in the Great War, presenting his phenomenally successful recruitment campaign – 'Your Country Needs You' – as a major contribution to the Allied victory and rehabilitating him as a brilliant strategist who understood the importance of fighting the war on multiple fronts.
Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
Author: Walter Jerrold
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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With Kitchener to Khartum
Author: George Warrington Steevens
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ISBN:
Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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ISBN:
Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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With Kitchener to Khartum
Author: George Warrington Steevens
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Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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With Kitchener to Khartum
Author: George Warrington Steevens
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Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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With Kitchener in Cairo
Author: Sydney Alexander Moseley
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Earl Kitchener of Khartoum: the story of his life
Author: Walter Copeland Jerrold
Publisher:
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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