Excerpt from The War in Egypt and the Soudan, Vol. 2: An Episode in the History of the British Empire, Being a Descriptive Account of the Scenes and Events of That Great Drama, and Sketches of the Principal Actors in It There was no longer any mistake about his intention or ours. Other massacres had taken place in other places, and it was necessary that we should pursue the work we had undertaken with prompt vigour. At this stage skirmishes and outpost engagements were of almost daily occurrence along an extended line, having the result, at all events, of retaining some Egyptian troops in position, instead of permitting them to scatter over the country, and thus indefinitely to prolong the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.