A Woman's Place Was Never Under Kitchener

When Gordon was unable to reason with the Islamic messiah and his mob, Lord Kitchener was dispatched to teach them a lesson. One does wonder if Gordon had not been sent to provide an excuse to teach them a lesson. Kitchener was well prepared. He didn't go to the Sudan by himself. He went with a small force of the best troops in the British Army who were augmented by the Egyptian army and the Sudanese army.

There was a young girl from Khartoum
Who took a nancy boy up to her room.
She said, 'Now, my dear,
'Let's get one thing quite clear:
'Who does what-and when-and to whom.



They had the latest repeating rifles, machine guns, and modern artillery. They built a railroad from Egypt to Khartoum and dispatched a fleet of gunboats up the Nile. Lord Kitchener meant business. Had there been an air force, he would have sent that too.