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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2632

x CANADA Campaign, Expedition and Military Mail The First Nile Expedition, 1884-85 1884 (20 Nov.) Egypt 20pa. rose card, with "avec résponse" deleted) from Capt. Egerton Denison at Gemi, Sudan to Toronto, the message headed "Nile Expedition, Gemi, Wady Halfa" and with the stamp impression cancelled by Wadi Halfa c.d.s. (22.11) and London quartered d.s. (8.12) in red applied at the London Foreign Branch to letters to be routed via Liverpool, and with faint indeterminate c.d.s. for 22 December at left. A very rare outgoing card from a member of the Canadian Voyageurs with only five such items recorded. Photo Estimate £ 1,800-2,000 Note: General Gordon was besieged at Khartoum by the Mahdi in 1884. Lord Wolseley requested Canadian Volunteers to pilot whale boats up the Nile as it was considered easier to relieve the city by this route rather than overland from Suakin, on the Red Sea coast On 14 September 1884 the "Ocean King" sailed from Montreal with 402 Volunteers, arriving at Alexandria on 7 October, where they joined Lord Wolseley´s forces as boatmen. All had returned to Canada by March 1885

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