The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-10
LORD klTcHEhER's CAREER
Famous British Soldiers Campaigns
and Advancement aie

| visit to France in 1870 and joined Gen
| Chanzys army OF the Loire, which un
| dertook to rescue France after Paris
| was under seige. He assisted in this
| war by starting several balloon expe-
| ditions, but had an attack of pneumo.
MIA soon after he joined the army and
saw little actual service.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener is the
son of Lieut-Col. H. II. Kitchener and
was born at Bally Longford, County
Kerry, Ire., on June "a, 1850. Enter
ing the royal military academy at
Woolwich in 1868, he was appointed
/ second lieutenant OF the royal en-
gineers in 1871. AS a subaltern, he
was employed in the survey work in
Cyrus and Palestine, and on promo
ton to the rank of captain in 1888,
was attached TO the Egyptian army,
then being recognized by British of
flcers. In the following year he sery-
ed on the staff of the British expedi-
tionary force on the Nile. From 1886
to 1888 he was commandant at Sua-
kin. Kitchener learned Arabic and
studied the people he was dealing
with by Disgusting himself as an
Arab. and mixing freely with them
His passions for work. his energy and
his command OF detail earned for him
the recognition of Sir Evelyn Wood
and Lord Wolseley, who were at the
head of the British army in Egypt
He made a real army out of the Egyp
tians and boldly grappled with the
problem of protecting Egypt from the
wild tribes. ~ 7t
Kitchener's rise to notice was slow,
because his army for a long period
was only engaged in little fights. In
1888 he attacked Osman Digna at
HANDFUL, the battle ending in a re-
treat, Kitchener himself leaving the
battlefield with bullet in his face.
Later In the year he led brigade OF
Sudanese over Osman5's trenches at
Gemaizeh.
Two years afterward he began the
exploit which laid the foundation of
his great fame, the slow conquest of
the Sudan, accompanied by the build
ing of a railroad which enabled him
to hold the territory from which he
swept the dervishes. In 1892 he Gus
ceeded Sir Francis Grenfell as sirdar
or commander-in-chief of the Egyp-
tian army, and entered upon the years
Of campaigning. which utterly subdu-
ed the wild tribes of Egypt. pushing
ahead his railroad to catch up with
his military victories. In 1896 he won
the notable action of Ferket and ad-
vanced the frontier and railway TO
Dongola, and was made a British ma
jor-general. A series of victories and
advances. with the railroad always
building in the rear, brought him
across the sudanese desert before
khartum. the stronghold of the Nah
di. the semiciyilized tribes which had
overrun Egypt. There the victory of
Omdurman finished the conquest and
placed the Egyptians and English in
Khartum
kitchener's work had received lit
lie recognition in England before
Khartum. Then the thorough admin
istrative work on his part gained uni
yersal admiration for him. He was
raised to the peerage as Baron Kltch-
eneF OF Khartum and received the
thanks OF Parliament and n grant of
100000. Describing Kitchener at
that time, George w. Stevens, the ia
nous war correspondent said:
Maiden. Sir Horatio Herbert
Kitchener is IS years old by the book,
but that Is irrelevant. He stands sew
eral inches over six feet, straight as
q lance. and looks out imperiously
above most mems heads: his motions
are deliberate and strong; slender,
but firmly knit. he seems built for
tifeless. steelwire endurance. rather
than for power and agility; that is al
so irrevelant.
Steady. passionless eyes, shaded
by decisive brows. brick-red, rather
full cheeks; a long mustache. beneath
NHaah 9pu Ntfiht an liuiiONdbit
his face Is harsh, and neither
appeals for affection nor stirs dislike.
All this is irreyeant. too; neither age
nor figure, nor face, nor any accident
of person. has any bearing on the es
sential sirdar.
b 'You could imagine the character
just the same as IL all the externals
were different. lie has no age but
the prime of life. no body but one TO
carry his mind. no face but one to
keep his brain behind. The brain and
the will are the essence and the
whole OF the mana brain and a will
so perfect in their workings that. in
the face OF EXTREMIST difficulty, they
have never seemed to know what
struggle u.s."
Kitchener's work in Egypt was a
great conquest with no great battles.
Similarly, when in 1899 he was sent
TO South Africa against the Beers as
chiefof-staff to Lord Roberts, he did
not shine as n brilliant strategist. but
did wonderful work in n practical
way.
In June. 1902. when the long and
harassing war came to a close. he was
rewarded by the title Of vlscount. pro
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