Note 430 — Chapter XVI · FIRST PART OF THE WAR IN THE SUDAN, 1884-85—EXPEDITION UP THE NILE.
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Except some battalions pushed to the frontier of Egypt to guard it against invasion, that appeared to be threatening; also the first preparations for laying a line of railway from Suakin to Berber, but which was stopped at the end of August. Major-General A. Lyon Fremantle (late Coldstream Guards) assumed command at Suakin at the end of July.