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| | Saudi Aramco World : The Expeditions of Chaille-Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | That campaign, launched by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, in the early 1870's, was largely led by Ismail's extraordinary foreign legion of American Civil War officers: some 50 veterans from both the Union and Confederate armies. |
 | | Under the command of the khedive's chief of staff, Charles Pomeroy Stone, a disgraced Union general (see Aramco World, January-February 1972) those veterans enlarged, trained and modernized the khedive's army, established schools to educate the soldiers and their sons, and organized the construction of fortifications and coastal defenses. |
 | | He did not hesitate, therefore, when the khedive appointed the English soldier of fortune and religious mystic Charles Gordon to be governor of Egypt's Equatoria province in the southern Sudan; eager for action, Chaillé-Long applied for a position on Gordon's staff. |
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