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173 ‘mere victory is’: Callwell, Small Wars, p. 151. Callwell’s book went through three editions by 1910.
173 ‘necessity by which’: Melbourne to Howick, 16 December 1837, quoted in Darwin, ‘Imperialism and the Victorians: The Dynamics of Territorial Expansion’, p. 624.
173 ‘foster some sort’: Earl of Cromer, ‘The government of subject races’, Political and Literary Essays, quoted in J. G. Darwin, ‘Baring, Evelyn, first earl of Cromer’, in Dictionary of National Biography.
174 ‘any more than’: Quoted in Cromer, Modern Egypt, vol. I, p. 92, n. 1.
177 ‘Much as I like’: Letter from Robert Hart (Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs) to J. D. Campell (his agent in London), 11 August 1880, printed in Fairbank, Bruner and Matheson, eds., The I.G. in Peking, p. 332.
178 ‘The Soudanese are’: Pall Mall Gazette, 9 January 1884.
179 ‘He seems to’: Quoted by Richard Davenport-Hines in Dictionary of National Biography entry.
180 ‘It’s funny that’: Ibid.
180 ‘When God was’: Quoted in Moorehead, The White Nile, p. 263.
180 In his journal: Quoted in ibid., p. 245.
180 ‘NOW MARK THIS’: Quoted in ibid., p. 258.
180 ‘Khartoum is all’: Quoted in ibid., p. 261.
182 ‘a mongrel scum’: Quoted in Longford, A Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 214.
182 ‘not help singing’: Quoted in ibid., p. 215.
182 ‘for I am’: Gordon, Khartoum Journal, pp. 56–7.
182 ‘A man who’: Cromer, Modern Egypt, vol. I, p. 448.
183 ‘That the promises’: Quoted in Moorehead, The White Nile, pp. 270–71.
183 Sir Edward Elgar: He abandoned the idea, but much of the music found its way into his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, a setting to music of Newman’s poem, which was a favourite of Gordon’s.
183 ‘England stands before’: Stevenson, Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, p. 276.
183 ‘to try to nurse’: W. T. Stead, in The Century: A Popular Quarterly, vol. 28 (August 1884), p. 561.
183 ‘In him were’: Pall Mall Gazette, 11 February 1885.
183 ‘General Gordon does’: Cromer, Modern Egypt, vol. II, p. 11.
184 ‘Thou shalt be’: Quoted in Moorehead, The White Nile, p. 287.
185 ‘to regard the’: Churchill, The River War, vol. II, p. 196.
185 ‘a good dusting’: Quoted in D’Este, Warlord, p. 105.
186 ‘even ham sandwiches’: Brendon, Winston Churchill, p. 28.
186 ‘disentombment’ of the Mahdi: Hansard, 4th series, vol. 72, col. 359, 5 June 1899.
188 ‘wrangle between two’: Blunt, My Diaries, vol. I, p. 367.
188 ‘a bitterness and’: Churchill, The River War, vol. II, p. 212.
189 ‘persuade most people’: Forster, 13 May 1884, House of Commons, quoted in Shannon, Gladstone, p. 332.
189 ‘Our side in’: Quoted in Hopkins, ‘The Victorians and Africa: A Reconsideration of the Occupation of Egypt, 1882’, p. 384.
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193 ‘Many there were’: Hyam, Britain’s Imperial Century, p. 7.
193 ‘What is he’: The story is told in Henderson, Set under Authority, p. 14, and obviously needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt.
194 ‘in forty years’: Scott, The Jewel in the Crown, pp. 223–4.
195 ‘produced an English’: Lugard, The Dual Mandate in Tropical Africa, p. 132.
196 ‘the white man’s burden, Lord’: Blunt, The Poetical Works of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, vol. II, p. 285.
196 ‘In Memory of’: Kernot, British Public Schools War Memorials, p. 30.
198 ‘Rapidly we learned’: James, Beyond a Boundary, pp. 25, 26.
198 ‘every department of’: Cromer, Political and Literary Essays, 3rd Series, pp. 13–14.
198 ‘we do not merely’: Miles, ‘Sport and Athletics, and the British Empire’, pp. 491, 499.
199 ‘I am Sandi’: Quoted in Anthony Kirk-Greene, ‘Imperial Administration and the Athletic Imperative: The Case of the District Officer in Africa’, in Baker and Mangan, eds., Sport in Africa, pp. 87–8.
199 ‘Documents no longer’: Quoted in Morris, Pax Britannica, p. 189.
199 ‘Why, some of’: Quoted in Bell, Glimpses of a Governor’s Life, p. 79.
200 a tiny force: Kirk-Greene, ‘The Sudan Political Service: A Profile in the Sociology of Imperialism’, p. 21.
200 ‘by accident’: Kirk-Greene, Britain’s Imperial Administrators, p. 180.
201 from country