sirdar

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But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar.

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At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese.

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Should this be done the office of Sirdar* would be taken from its present British incumbent, Major General Charlton Watson Spinks, or "Spinks Pasha" as Egyptians know him.

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Few days later the British Sirdar in Egypt, Sir Lee Stack, was assassinated and Mr. Chamberlain traded a settlement of that outrage for which Britain was paid $2,500,000 by Egypt.

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One day Tom—that was my master's name; he taught me to call him Tom—said to me, 'To-morrow the Lat Sahib, the Sirdar, and many ladies are coming to hear you talk; Myna.'

From The Sa'-Zada Tales by Fraser, William Alexander