General Garnet JosephWolseley Letter 1885

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General Garnet JosephWolseley Letter 1885

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A letter written fromCairo by British General Garnet Joseph Wolseley to the publisher MacMillan,primarily attacking Prime Minister William E. Gladstone for his vacillationwhich resulted in failure to reach General Charles G. Gordon and Egyptianforces at Khartoum in time to save them from destruction by Sudanese rebelsattacking the city, and also discussing Wolseley’s plan to produce a fifthedition of the . Soldiers’ Pocket Book

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley, Viscount, 1833-1913

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British Army officer. From the description of Papers, 1873-1913. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20274213 Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount, was born June 4, 1833 at Golden Bridge, County Dublin, Ireland, the son of an army major. Wolseley entered the British army in 1852 and fought in many campaigns around the world, including Burma (now Myanmar), 1852-1853; the Crimea, 1854-1856; India, 1857-1858; and China,1860. His record of success in the ...

Gordon, General Charles G. “Chinese. ”

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