Khartoum has fallen, and by his gallant action Sir Herbert Kitchener has at last avenged the death of one of England's greatest heroes. He has likewise shown us that we have another great General (always a valuable asset) in himself. Until this year the capacity of the Sirdar as a leader was practically an unknown quantity, but the wonderful organisation of the present campaign has placed him "at once in the front rank of our great Generals. This is recognised not only in England but by Europe generally, and the Sirdar's march on Omdurman seems for the time being entirely to have edi the Czar's universal peace proposals. The French Temps commenting on the advance says "it was calculated so scientifically that the march may be likened to the solution of a mathematical problem."—The battle will probably be known in military annals by the name of "Egaiga," that being the name of the place where the Khalifa's army was drawn up seven miles in front of his city,
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