Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

 1. An Irish and Continental Childhood and Youth, 1850–67

 2. The Making of a Surveyor-Soldier, 1868–82

 3. In Egypt and Sudan, 1882–92

 4. Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, 1892–8

 5. Omdurman, Fashoda, and Khartoum, 1898–9

 6. The South African War, 1900–2

 7. India and Afterwards, 1902–11

 8. Egypt Again, 1911–14

 9. Supreme British Warlord, 1914–161

10. A Watery Grave and a Contested Reputation: 1916 and Beyond

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography