The conspiracy was broken.
"How widespread it was, only half a dozen white men knew at the
time. . . . To it the treachery of the Egyptian garrison at Khartoum
and the death of Gordon was due, and the preservation of the Desert
Column (the relief force), can be placed to its discovery."
The next few years in Kitchener's life, which we can but summarize,
show him wielding a masterful hand in the pacification of Egypt. After
Gordon's death, the command was reorganized, and Kitchener became a
Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry. His duties took him to the extreme
outposts.
Halfway down the Red Sea, over against Mecca, is Suakim, the southern
outpost of Egypt. Suakim has the distinction of being one of the
hottest stations on earth, and one of the most desolate, comparable to
Central Arizona in the hot season. Here Kitchener served as Governor
from 1886 to 1888, with distinction. The following year found him
fighting on the frontier of the Soudan, the wild, vast back-country to
the south and west.
From 1889 to 1892 he served as Adjutant-General of the Egyptian Army,
nominally as an officer of the Sultan's viceroy, the Khedive; but in
reality the visible presence of England's protecting power. He
received several high decorations, which would show that he won the
esteem and confidence of his Egyptian patrons.
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