 Now MARK THIS, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than two hundred men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall ; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye. CG GORDON. You send me no information, though you have...  The United Service - Page 2531885Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 528 pages
...sixth centers in the Stewart disaster, and ends with this fateful prediction under date of December 14: Now MARK this, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask...the town may fall ; and I have done my best for the honour of my country. Good bye. Following this introduction are one or two other pieces of prolegomena,... | |
 | Charles George Gordon - 1885 - 486 pages
...here to Kartoum. I should then communicate with the North Fort, and act according to circumstances. Now MARK THIS, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask...the town may fall ; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye. CG GORDON. You send me no information, though you have lots of money.... | |
 | 1885 - 608 pages
...next day he sent down the Bordeen with his journals, which close with one last forecast of doom. ' If the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more...the town may fall, and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good-bye.' Three months before he had written, ' I will not give up the place... | |
 | 1885 - 458 pages
...THIS" (the figures of print are not mine), " if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than 200 men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall ; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye " (p. 395, dated December 14). His "insights" are too many for quotation... | |
 | Sir Charles William Wilson - 1886 - 462 pages
...December, or at any rate after the 31st December, Khartum could not have resisted a determined assault. the expeditionary force, and I ask for no more than...the town may fall ; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good-bye." In his private letters, dated the same day, General Gordon stated... | |
 | Charles Royle - 1886 - 422 pages
...here to Khartoum. I should then communicate with the North Fort, and act according to circumstances. Now, mark this, if the expeditionary force— and I ask for no more than two hundred men—does not come in ten days the town may fall, and I have done my best for the honour of our country.... | |
 | 1886 - 880 pages
...city." The last act, so far as is known, is an entry, Deo. 14, and ends thus : " Hard work this, of the expeditionary force, and I ask for no more than two hundred men ; if they do not come in ten days, the town may fall; and I have done my best for the honor of our... | |
 | Alexander Macdonald (F.R.G.S.) - 1887 - 400 pages
...too late. And in the last entry in his journal, on December 14, he said it again in these emphatic words:— Now MARK THiS ! If the expeditionary force,...the town may fall, and I have done my best for the honour of our country. This last warning and sad appeal for help only confirms other warnings and appeals... | |
 | Thomas Carter, William Henry Long - 1893 - 796 pages
...expedition, including ten Canadians, were drowned before reaching Dongola. Expeditionary Force — and I ask no more than two hundred men— does not come in ten...the town may fall, and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye."* ABU KLEA. JANUARY I"TH, 1885. SIR H. STEWART, after a long and waterless... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts - 1895 - 152 pages
...circumstances. Noio marls, this, if Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than 200 meu, does not come in 10 days, the town may fall, and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye. CG GORDON." Holograph. [Add. MS. 34,479, f. 108.] Bequeathed, in 1893,... | |
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