sHE RECONOUEST OF THE SOUDAN. 129 British division had been completed by the arrival of all the regimentsassigned to its second brigade. One of them was a battalion of the Grenadier Guards, which hadbeen brought from Gibraltar to Alexandria,and sent up theNileby a rapid steamer and railway journey, contrasting curiously with the long march by which the detachments of the Guards had reached the Upper Nile thirteen years before. The two British batteries had come up from Cairo,and twoheavy siege gunshad arrived incharge of a detachment of British garrison artillery. The guns were four battalions. The following list gives the names of thebrigadiers and the regiments under their command:— British Division.— General Gatacre.

1st Brigade.— Wauchope: ist CameronHighlanders; ist SeaforthHighlanders; ist Lincolnshire; ist Royal Warwickshire.

2ndBrigade.— Lyttelton: istBattalionGrenadier Guards ; ist Battalion Rifle Brigade;ist Northumberland Fusiliers ; 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers. moved from the railwaytrucks to barges at Dakhala camp, and at once towed up to Nasri, their teams following in other barges, or being marched up the river bank under . convoy. Several companies of the camel corps that had beenguarding the southern frontier of the Dongola province were concentrated at Korti, and under the command of Major Tudway they marched across the Bayudadesertto Metemneh, following the route bv which the desert column had made its way to the same point in 1885. Tudwayhadbeen ayoung lieutenant in those days, and had shared the dangers of that brave dash through the wilderness.

Egyptian Division.— General Archibald Hunter. ist Brigade. — Mac-Donald: 2nd Egyptians ; 9th,10th, and nth Soudanese.

2nd Brigade.— Maxwell : Xth Egyptians; 12th, 13th, and14th Soudanese.

Jrd Brigade.— Lew-is: 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 15th Egyptians.

4th Brigade.— Collinson: ist, 5th, 17th, and 18th Egyptians. To the British division there were attached a battery of six Maxims, manned by men of the 16th company E. D., R.A.; a battery of four Maxims, manned by ist Royal Irish Fusiliers ; a detachment of No. 2 company R.E.

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Now he was able to ride securely asin a friendly country over the battle-fields of Abu Klea and Gubat, where the Jaalin, now our friends, had charged so recklessly upon the British square.

Thus by the middle of August the Sirdar's army, about 22,000 strong, had gathered along the river from the Atbara to Nasri and Wad Hamed. Before telling the story of their victorious advance on Omdurman it will be well to note here the organisation of the whole force.

There were two infantry divisions,the British under General Gatacre, composed of two brigades, and the Egyptian under General Hunter, of four. Each brigade was madeup of 9 To the Egyptian division were attached six Maxims, manned by Egyptian gunners. The mountedtroopswere:The 21st Lancers,Colonel Martin; ten squadrons of Egyptian cavalry, Colonel Broadwood; eight companies of the camel corps (Egyptian mountedinfantry), Major Tudway.

The Egyptian cavalry hadwith them Maxims mounted on galloping carriages, and drawn by mules.

The artillery consisted of seven batteries,and a detachmentof the light siege train,forty-four guns inall,organised as follows:— British artillery— 32nd battery, R.A., six 15-pounders;37th battery,R.A., six 5-inch howitzers,throwinga 50-poundshell;detachment 16th