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exploit which laid the foundation Of
his great fame, of the slow conquest
of the Sudan, accompanied by the
building of railroad which enabled
him to hold the territory from which
he swept the Dervishes. In 1892 he
succeeded Sir Francis Grenfell as sir
dar or commander-in-ch of the
Egyptian army, and entered upon the
years Of campaign which utterly sub
dued the wild tribes of Egypt, pushing
ahead his railroad % catch up with his
military victories.
In 1896 he won the notable action Of
Ferket, and advanced the frontier and
railway to Dongola, and was made a
British major general. A series of
victories and advances, with the rail-
road always building in his rear,
brought him across the Sudanese des-
ert before Khartum, the stronghold of
the Mahdi, the semi-civilized tribes
which had overrun Egypt. Here the
victory of Omdurman finished the
conquest and placed the Egyptians
and English in Khartum.
Kitchener's work had received little
recognition in England before Khar-
tum. Then the thorough administra-
tive work on his part gained universal
admiration for him. He was raised
to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of
Khartum and received the thanks of
parliament and a grant of $150,OO0.
Describing Kitchener at that time,
George W. Stevens, the famous war
correspondent said:
Maj. Gen. Sir Horatio Herbert
Kitchener is 4S years old by the book,
but that is irrelevant He stands sew
eral inches over 6 feet, straight as a
lance, and looks out imperiously above
most mems heads; his motions are
deliberate and strong; slender, but
firmly knit, he seems built for tireless,
steelwire endurance, rather than for
power and agility; that also is irrel-
evant,
STEADY, passionless eyes, shaded by
decisive brows; brick-red, rather full
cheeks; a long mustache, beneath
which you divine an immoyable
mouth; his face is harsh, and neithe.
appeals for affection nor stirs dis
like. All this is irrelevant, too; nei
ther age, nor figure, nor face, nor any
accident of person, has any bearing
on the essential Sirdar.
you would imagine the character
just the same as if all the externals
were different. He has no age, but the
prime of life; no body, but one to car
ry his mind; no face, but one to keer
his brain behind. The brain and the
will are the essence and the whole
of the mana brain and a will ST
perfect in their working that, in the
face of EXTREMIST difficulty, they have
never seemed to know what struggle
is"
Kitchener's work in Egypt was .
great conquest with no great battles
Similarly, when in 1899 he was sent
to South Africa against the Beers as
chief of staff to Lord Roberts, he did
not shine as a brilliant strategist but
did wonderful work in a practical way
In June, 1912, when the long and
harassing war came to a close, he was
rewarded by the title Of viscount, pro-
motion to the rank of general and
given grant of $4,000.
Immediately after the peace he
went to India as commander-in-ch
of the East Indies, and in that post
which he held for seven years, car.
ried out many far-reaching admins
trative reforms. On leaving India ir
1909 he was promoted field marshal
and succeeded the Duke of Connaught
as commander-in-chief and high COM