Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-10
The Campaign in the
Soudan.
General Lord Wolseley,
Who Has THE CHIEF COMMAND OF
THE BRITIsn Forces.

THE BRITISH FORCES,
The interesting military operations
now progressing in the Soudan, and
so far prosperous to British arms,
add additional lustre TO the soldier
ship of General Lord Wolseley, who
planned the campaign being success
fully pursued under his superintend-
ence. On the 26th of August, 1884,
Wolseley was giving the chief COM
mand in Egypt lie arrived in that
country about September 9th, 1891,
and Immediately assumed command
Of all operations concerning the Sou
dan expedition, the primary object
of which is to bring away General
Gordon from Khartoum. When that
end has been accomplished, SO far as
is yet known, no further offensive
operations of any kind will be un-
dertaken; aud when road has been
opened for General Gordon's retreat,
the march southwark is to be suspend
cd and the campaign brought to
close. The instructions as above were
approved and forwarded Oct. s, 1884,
when the nearest of Gordons friends
were two hundred miles distant from
Khartoum, In which city he was SER
iously threatened, As the result of
operations directed by General Lord
Wolseley, Khartoum is now in cam
munication with detachment of the
British forces, by means of steamers
running on the Nile, and the success
of the expedition, so far as its avow-
ed object Is concerned, assured. Cor
don can be rescued, it appears, just as
soon as he wishes TO be rescued.
General Herbert Stewart, it is true,
has done the hard fighting necessary
to what has been done, but his super
ior planned the march through the
desert which resulted in two victor
les to British arms, and virtually the
rcsclte of Gordon.
General Lord Wolseley comes of an
old family, the Staflordshirc Wolse-
leys, of Wolseley Hall. He was born
July 4, 1888, and is the son of Major G.
j. Wolsely, of county Dublin. At
the age of nineteen he entered the
army as All ensign, and the same
year, 1852, first smelled powder in
the Burmese war. At the storming
of Myat-toon he led the party which
first scaled the walls, and was severe
ly wounded in the left thigh by a
rifle ball. Returning to England he
received honorable mention in the
dispatches. At the outbreak of the
Crimean war, in 1854, he landed with
the Nineteenth Light Infantry and
scryed in the trenches as an assist
ant Engineer. Conspicous services
in the attack on the Quarries, in the
assault of June 18th, and in the third,
fourth aud fifth bombardments of
Seoastopool won for him repeated
mention in dispatches. On August
30th, 1854, while he was in charge of
the advanced line of sappers, the
Russians made a sortic, aud in the en-
suing skirmish Wolseley received
such injuries to his head and face
from splinters of stone caused by
a round shot striking gabion, that
not only was he compelled to retire
on the sick list, but his eyesight was
considered for some time to be in
peril. But this calamity was averted,
and he once more joined his regiment,
and was wrecked in 1857 in the
Straits of Banca while proceeding in
II. NJ. S. Transit to China, During
the Indian Mutiny he took part in
the relief OF Lucknow, in the siege
and capture OF the same place, and in
/ defence of Alumbagh by Sir James
0utram, together with several en-
gagements which took place in con-
nection with that struggle. After
this he was in GUIDE with Sir Hope
Grant, to whose force he acted as
Quartermaster- General. lie contin-
ued to serve IN India during 1858 and
1859, and in 1860 served upon the
Quatermaster- Generals staff during
the Chinese war, and was present at
the taking of the Taku forts. When
difficulties were threatened between
the United States and Great Britain
owing to the affair of the Trent, VOL
seley was sent to Canada by his Gov
ernment. He afterwards visited the
Confederate Army. Later, in Decem-
Der, 1862, he was engaged in putting
an end to troubles in the Red River
Settlement. When a general was
needed to conduct the war in the
Ashantee country, Wolseley was Sc
lected for the honor. The manner
III which he carried on the campaign
proved highly successful, and upon
his return to England he received
the thanks of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, grant of E25000, and an offer
of baronetcy. This was declined.
A special mission to Natal in 1875, a
brief experience as dd interim gov
ernment of Natal and u number of
the Indian Council, and a residence
in the island of Cyprus as High
Commissioner and Commander-in-
Chief, after the Earl of Beaconsfield
annexed the island in 1879, are the
next incidents in his career. The
Islandhwana (or Isandula) disaster
in the Znlu war, caused the British
ministry to send Wolseley out to take
command. He found the war nearly
over OH his arrival, but he used all
the powers he possessed to settle the
question relating to it. From 1874
to 1876 he was Inspector-General of
the Auxiliary Forces, during which
period he made himself popular with