Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...oldest college in the world is Mohammand College at Cairo which was 1000 years old when Oxford was founded. It has 11,000 students...
...entered Harvard with the class of 1893. After graduating he entered the law office of Carlisle and Johnson, in Washington, where he studied law, and was a member of the Law School of Columbian University. He spent the greater part of last winter at Cairo, Egypt, as a special agent of the Agricultural Department, but returned to Washington last fall and resumed the study...
...three men-of-war could have entered the river to Cairo, but the opportunity was not realized, and now the two strong forts, Jackson and St. Phillip, guarded the entrance, and other points, as Vicksburg, were strongly for tified...
Polk had attempted to get control of the Ohio river, but here Grant made his first appearance, and with characteristic promptness, occupied Cairo and Poducale, effectually keeping control of the Ohio and also of the Tennessee and the Cumberland. These two rivers made aneasy point of attack upon the Confederate line, as Grant was soon to show...
...Soudan was governed by officers sent by the Khedive from Cairo. The Soudan service was looked upon by the officers as punishment and a place at which to live as easily as possible and get rich. Every bit of property the natives had was taxed. The oppression was intolerable. Such was the condition of affairs when Gordon arrived. He succeeded Sir Samuel Baker as governor of the Equatorial Provinces, which extended from the 23rd degree of north latitude to the equator and from the Red Sea westward. In this great tract of country Gordon had absolute power. This condition...