A Patriot's History Of The Modern World (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Blowing sand swept the face of a young lieutenant in the British 21st Lancers as he and his troops waited patiently behind a wall of khaki for the assault massing at the formation’s front. British and Egyptian riflemen stood and kneeled in double ranks, interspersed with Maxim guns and heavy artillery. It was an impressive sight, even for Lieutenant Winston Churchill, who had seen his share of action. Now, in September 1898, he jotted down notes he would use in his moonlighting job as a war correspondent, incomplete as they necessarily were from his vantage point inside the British square and behind the bristle of Enfield rifles. In the distance, a massive dust cloud drifted his way. But it was no typical desert sandstorm: instead, the first of 80,000 supposedly unstoppable “Ansar” Muslim forces under the command of Abdullah al-Taashi (called “Khalifa” or ruler) poured out of the hills and from the plain in a headlong charge at the Anglo-Egyptian ranks. Once known as “Mahdists”
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