The side that stays within its fortifications is beaten.
The side that stays within its fortifications is beatenNapoleon Bonaparte
From the fort’s tower, the desert stretched into the distance in all directions, lit only by the glimmer of stars. The rigours and responsibilities of the march had occupied Jack’s full attention, but now he realised how isolated he was from the world. Only a single telegraph line connected him to Berber and from thence to Cairo. Apart from that, there was sand and scrub, with possibly an occasional Arab caravan.
Jack stared into the wilderness.
Osman Zubeir was out there, a man who had helped defeat Hicks Pasha, a soldier trained in the Egyptian army and a personal expert fighting man. Somewhere out there may even be the Mahdi, supposedly the descendant of
