BURLEIGH (Bennet).
Sirdar and Khalifa or the Reconquest of the Soudan 1898.
Bennet Burleigh was a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph of London, and this is his account of the Dongola and Nile campaigns, 1896-8, which culminated in the Anglo-Egyptian victory at the Battle of Atbara, 8th April 1898.
“He was present in the campaign on the Red Sea in 1884 and was the first to report the news of the disastrous first battle of el-Teb; he next accompanied the expedition of 1884-5 for the relief of Khartoum and was wounded in the battle of Abu Tulaih (Abu Klea) in which he was mentioned in dispatches, the first honour of its kind awarded to any English war correspondent…” (Richard Hill, A Biographical Dictionary of the Sudan, London, 1967).
He also wrote Desert Warfare and Khartoum Campaign 1898 (1899), which completed the story with events leading up to the decisive Battle of Omdurman.
