DAYS OF WAITING AND PREPARATION, 14 CHAPTER III. MUSTERING FOR THE OVERTHROW OF MAHDISM, 35 CHAPTER IV. BY THE WAY--FROM CAIRO TO DAKHALA, 45 CHAPTER V. DAKHALA CAMP: GOSSIP AND DUTY, 63 CHAPTER VI. MARCHING IN THE SOUDAN--FROM DAKHALA TO WAD HABESHI, 75 CHAPTER VII. WITH THE ARMY IN THE FIELD--WAD HAMID TO EL HEJIR, 92 CHAPTER VIII. EL HEJIR TO UM TERIF--INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS, 105 CHAPTER IX. ADVANCE TO KERRERI--SKIRMISHING WITH THE ENEMY, 119 CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN--FIRST PHASE OF THE FIGHT, 135 CHAPTER XI. BATTLE OF OMDURMAN--_continued._--THE CAVALRY FIGHTS--MACDONALD'S SAVING ACTION, 167 CHAPTER XII. STORIES OF THE BATTLE--OMDURMAN, 199 CHAPTER XIII. CLOSE OF CAMPAIGN--GORDON MEMORIAL SERVICE, KHARTOUM, 228 CHAPTER XIV. KHARTOUM MEMORIAL COLLEGE--THE OFFICIAL DESPATCHES, 263 CHAPTER XV. THE FASHODA AFFAIR--A RED BRITISH LINE THROUGH AFRICA, 295 POSTSCRIPT, 334 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Brigadier-General H. A. Macdonald, C.B., D.S.O., _Frontispiece_ Bennet Burleigh, _To face page_ 1 Headquarters, Wady Halfa, 9 Darmali (British Brigade Summer Quarters), 23 Group of Staff Officers--Colonel Wingate in Centre, 34 Street in Dakhala, 53 Troops going to Wad Habeshi, 58 Wood Station (_en route_ to Omdurman), 69 Loading Up--Breaking Camp, 77 21st Lancers--Advance Guard, 81 Halt by the Way, 87 Slatin Pasha (on Foot), 89 Artillery going towards Omdurman, 125 Battle of Omdurman--Zereba Action, 151 Macdonald's Brigade advancing, 182 Sirdar directing Advance on Omdurman, 183 Khalifa's Captured Standard (Sirdar extreme left), 195 Chief Thoroughfare, Omdurman (Mulazim Wall, left; Osman Digna's House, right), 196 Effect of Shell Fire upon Wall (Mulazim Enclosure), 197 Khalifa's House, 217