Word: soudan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...France or England the better right to the control of the Soudan...
...recent riots in Constantinople. B. And as long as they last there will be strained relations between England and Turkey and the other powers. (1) Eastern question kept undecided. C. England already has her hands full. (1) Northern frontier of India. (2) China. (3) Egypt and the Soudan. (4) Cape Colony and the Transvaal. (5) Venezuela. D. The objection that decisive action on the part of England would involve war with one or several of the other powers does not old. (1) Armenian autonomy, as in Crete, would obviate this. E. England is under treaty obligation to protect the Armenians...
...English occupation has not been a success because it has done much more harm than good-(a) England allowed Egypt to lose the Soudan.- (x) In 1884, England forbade the Khedive to recover Soudan, and caused the death of General Gordon: Quar. Rev., p. 264, (1895).- (b) Public debt has been increased from 475,000,000 to 508,965,299 dollars.- (c) There has been great financial corruption under British rule: J. S. Keay, M. P.- (c) Financial progress is rendered difficult.- (x) The finance department of Egypt is guarded by six European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen...
...advisability of building a navy, said Professor Hollis, may seem an unnecessary prelude to a talk on battle ships; but when we consider that England is beginning a war in the Soudan and that Spain is waring in Cuba it is well to consider that nation is most likely to survive which is the best equipped...
Gordon went back to the Soudan and spent the next four years in fighting. He won victory after victory, taking all the natives who so wished into his service. After a time things did not go so well. He was defeated in a great battle. From that time onward his position was critical. He had never doubted being able to gather the chiefs of the country around him. Now he failed and was unable to relieve his garrisons. He made his way to Khartoum, which he proceeded to put in a state of defence. He had several little steamers...