“British Troops on the Nile” (“The Graphic”)
The Nile at Assouan, with the Encampments of the British Troops

Cooks Transport Ceases: Government Piquet Boats Towing the Infantry Whalers to the Rapids of the Great Cataract. Front page of The Graphic 30 (8 November 1884). Click on image to enlarge it.

Arrival of the First Infantry Boats at Wady Halfa, where Cook’s Transport Ceases. From the same page as above.

Wady Halfa — Lord Wolsley’s Head-Quarters. Front page of the issue for 18 October 1884.

The Great Cataract at Wady Halfa — View of the second Gate from the Blue jackets’s Camp. (15 November 1884): 505.

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