A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile Expeditionary Force, and its Return down the Rapids. By … With Maps by Major the Hon. F.L.L. Colborne.
First edition. Three folding maps. 8vo. Library cloth, slightly darkened spine. With the bookplate to the front pastedown of the United Services Club. viii, 292pp. 4pp. ads 24pp. publisher’s catalogue. Edinburgh & London, Blackwood, 1885.
Brackenbury was selected by Wolseley for the Gordon Relief Expedition. He was appointed Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-Master General at Cairo in September 1884, and in December 1884 joined Wolseley at Korti being made second in command on the River Column. With the death of General Earle in February 1885 Brackenbury assumed command. This, his account is uncommon.
