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SUDAN OPERATIONS, 1896-1900 The wonderful progress — political, economical and social — which Egypt had made during British occupation, so ably set forth in Sir Alfred Milner's England in Egypt (published in 1892), together with the revelation in so strong a l ...

In February 1879 a slight outbreak of discharged officers and soldiers occurred at Cairo, which led to the despatch of British and French ships to Alexandria. On the 26th of June of that year Ismail Pasha was removed from Egypt, and Tewfik assumed the khedivia

... lanation of the changes in the external world would be that they are due to the operations and volitions of spirits. Animal Souls. — But apart from considerations of this sort, it is probable that animals must, early in the history of animistic beliefs, have b ...

... n its head, then with a smart jerk throws each little pile dear of the scene of operations. Proceeding thus it gradually works its way from the circumference towards the centre. When the latter is reached and the pit completed, the larva settles down at the bo ...

... ecured the active assistance of Persia against Athens. The success of his naval operations in the neighbourhood of the Hellespont was such that Athens was glad to accept terms of peace (the " Peace of Antalcidas "), by which (i) the whole of Asia Minor, with t ...

... value of the rouble and the prices of Russian stocks, the suspension of farming operations owing to advances on growing crops being no longer available, the rise in the prices of the necessaries of life, and lastly, the appearance of famine, filled half the em ...

... Pompey by the Gabinian law) to clear the sea of pirates, and thereby assist the operations against Mithradates VI. He failed in the task, and made himself unpopular by plundering the provinces (Sallust, Hist, iii., fragments ed. B. Maurenbrecher, p. 108; Velle ...

... the death of P. F. A. M6chain (1744-1804). The two left Paris in 1806 and began operations among the mountains of Spain, but Biot returned to Paris after they had determined the latitude of Fonnentera, the southernmost point to which they were to carry the sur ...

... O— 16 scale. The volume actually weighed was 163 c.c. Subsequently large-scale operations with the same apparatus as had been used for the principal gases gave an almost identical result (19-940) for argon prepared with oxygen. Argon is soluble in water at 12 ...

... ned. He classified thinking (Mel. E i) and science (Topics, vi. 6) by the three operations of speculation (Otupia), practice (rpa£is) and production (mirfja), and made the following subdivisions: — I. Speculative: about things; subdivided (Met. E i; De An. i. ...

... and there erected his first spinning mill, which was worked by horses. But his operations were at first greatly fettered by want of capital, until Jedediah Strutt (q.v.) , having satisfied himself of the value of the machines, entered with his partner, Samuel ...

... neral or particular; in the first case there is a complete cessation of hostile operations in every part of the dominions of the belligerent powers; in the second there is merely a temporary truce between two contending armies, or between a besieged fortress a ...

... is aided the duke against France. Arnaud, however, took no part in the military operations, though he visited England (1707) to obtain pecuniary aid from Queen Anne. He died at Schonenberg (which was the church hamlet of the parish of Dtirrmenz) in 1 7 2 1 . I ...

... tein. In 1634 Wallenstein was assassinated, and Arnim began at once more active operations. He won an important victory at Liegnitz in May 1634, but from this time he became more and more estranged from the Swedes. The peace of Prague followed, in which Arnim' ...

... the obstacle brought into connexion with it. In these and all other artificial operations the office of man is, as has often been remarked, a very limited one ; it consists of moving things into certain places. We move objects, and by doing this, bring some t ...

... tore the Roman authority in the East. By very dexterous military and diplomatic operations V'itcllius succeeded completely. Artabanus was deserted by his followers and fled to the East. Tiridatcs, who was proclaimed king, could no longer maintain himself, beca ...

... an inferior mixed race. They were all followers of the mahdi and khalifa in the Sudan wars (1883-1808). See /tn{to-£{yp<taii5udan,editcdbyCountGlcichen (London, 1905).

... ed ; and it instructively illustrated the feasibility of concerted astronomical operations at distant parts of the earth. The way was thus prepared for availing to the full of the opportunities for a celestial survey offered by the transits of Venus in 1761 an ...

... isive battle of Omdurman on the 2nd of September following (see EGYPT: Military Operations).

... 8th and 9th of July, Sherman continued his advance against Atlanta. His plan of operations was directed primarily to the seizure of the Decatur railway, by which the Confederate commander, General J. E. Johnston, might receive support from Virginia and the Car ...

... rvey of the mountains. The ancient caravan route from Mauretania to the western Sudan crossed the lower Moroccan Atlas by the pas* of Tilghemt and passed through the oasis of Tafflalt, formerly known as Sajilmasa |" Sigilmassa "], on the east side of the Anti- ...

... H ; he was given a staff appointment by Lord Cornwallis in 1 700, served in the operations against Tippoo Sahib, anil continued in various staff appointments up to 1797, when he returned to England a brevet lieut.colonel. In 1800 he was made lieut. -colonel an ...

... 838 published at Simla his famous manifesto dethroning Dost Mahommed. The early operations were crowned with success, and the governor-general received the title of earl of Auckland. But reverses followed quickly, and in the ensuing campaigns the British troop ...

... activity; is inured to war; is well liked by the soldiery; is fortunate in his operations." In 1797 Bonaparte sent him to Paris to encourage the Jacobinical Directors, and it was Augereau and the troops led by him that coerced the " moderates " in the council ...

... -earth, potter's clay, and precious stones. It is therefore natural that mining operations should have been carried out in Austria from the earliest times, as, for instance, the salt mines of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, which had already been worked during the ...

... ing to the incapacity of his colleagues to realize the unique importance of the operations in Spain. In November 18 10 the old king's mind gave way, and on the i ith of February 1811, an act of parliament bestowed the regency, under certain restrictions, upon ...

... n; he felt intuitively that these distance actions must be the result of unseen operations in the interposed medium. Accordingly when he sprinkled iron filings on a card held over a magnet and revealed the curvilinear system of lines of force (see MAGNETISM), ...

... dy of Volta's electrophorus at once suggested the performance of these cyclical operations by some form of rotation instead of elevation, and led to the invention of various forms of doubler or multiplier. The instrument was thus the first of a long series of ...

... inciples and Practice of Medicine (1839); Human Physiology (1840); and Surgical Operations in the Mesmeric Stale without Pain (1843). He was the author of numerous papers in the Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, of which he was at one time presid ...

... ccount of malpractices (Gordon himself having been made governor-general of the Sudan), Emin was chosen to fill the post of governor of the Equatorial Province (i.e. the old equatorial provinces minus the Bahr-el-Ghazal) and given the title of " bey." He prove ...

... -power, involving the destruction of private property in the course of military operations. The police power fetters rights of property; eminent domain takes them •way. The power of taxation is analogous to eminent domain as regards the purposes to which the c ...

... n of the verb " to engineer," which in its early uses referred specially to the operations of those who constructed engines of war and executed works intended to serve military purposes. Such military engineers were long the only ones to whom the title was app ...

... authorities. The Indian Engineers have not only distinguished themselves in the operations of war, but have left monuments of engineering skill in the irrigation works, railways, surveys, roads, bridges, hlii buildings and defences of the country. When Indian ...

... my in order to crush the newly formed Spartan league (362). After some masterly operations between Sparta and Mantineia, by which he nearly captured both these towns, he engaged in a decisive battle on the latter site, and by his vigorous shock tactics gained ...

... n of 1877, for the best handbook for the battlefield of surgical appliances and operations. This book is illustrated by admirable diagrams, showing the different methods of bandaging and dressing, as well as the surgical operations as they occur on the battlef ...

... e equivalent of Habashat (whence the 1 For the topography and later history see SUDAN and ABYSSINIA. [HISTORY modern Abyssinia), which, from the context would appear to denote a tribe located in S. Arabia, whose 'name was rendered by the Greek geographers as A ...

... a smoky green-edged flame. It is largely used in dentistry and slight surgical operations to produce local anaesthesia (q.v.), and is known by the trade-name kelene. More volatile anaesthetics such as anestile or anaesthyl and coryl are produced by mixing wit ...

... ved, at whatever cost, to penetrate into Champagne; and in order to support his operations by the EUGENE possession of some important places, he began by making himself master of Quesnoy. But the Dutch, having been surprised and beaten in the lines of Denain, ...

... erebral or mental dissociation, which in hypnosis is temporarily induced by the operations of the hypnotist, and in hysteria arises from some deficiency of energy in the whole psycho-physical system. In respect to these points there is now a wide consensus of ...

... r by the inflammable gases and less valuable grades of tar obtained in previous operations. The condensing plant is also of variable design; a common pattern consists of a connected series of slightly inclined copper pipes contained in a rectangular tank of wa ...