Telegram from Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington to Sir Evelyn Baring

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SCC telegrams Baring regarding the expedition to Khartoum to relieve General Charles Gordon. He writes that he does not understand how the "Suakim Expedition" will assist Garnet Wolseley, 1st Baron as troops cannot land at Suakim for six or eight weeks and asks if they anticipate an attack from [Osman]. Date stamped, 5 Jan.

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Arranged in accordance with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition, Ottawa 2000 and The Devonshire Collection Cataloguing Guidelines.

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