ÿþ<html><head><title>General Sir Archibald Hunter</title> <meta name="keywords" content="britain, general hunter, knight, governor, england"> <meta name="description" content="A knight-errant of the nineteenth century - General Sir Archibald Hunter"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <script> <!-- function comments() { popupWin = window.open('/comments.html','keyboard','width=355,height=350,resizable=yes,menubar=no') } //--> </script></head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="http://www.logoi.com/media/background.gif"> <table width=800><tr><td> <img src="http://www.logoi.com/media/logoi.gif" border=0 alt="Logoi.com" width=167 height=66> </td><td valign=top> <font face="arial" size=4 color="#080888"><strong>General Sir Archibald Hunter</strong> </font> </td></tr></table> <table border=0 width=800><tr><td valign=top width=120><center> <br><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/languages.html"><img src="http://www.logoi.com/media/languages.gif" border=0 vspace=3 alt="Languages" width=101 height=20></a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/logoi_notes.html"><img src="http://www.logoi.com/media/logoi_notes.gif" border=0 alt="Logoi Notes" vspace=3 width=101 height=20></a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/links.html"><img src="http://www.logoi.com/media/links.gif" border=0 alt="Links and Resources" vspace=3 width=101 height=20></a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/about.html"><img src="http://www.logoi.com/media/about.gif" border=0 alt="About Logoi.com" vspace=3 width=101 height=20></a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/index.html"><img src="http://www.logoi.com/media/home.gif" border=0 alt="Logoi.com" vspace=3 width=101 height=20></a><br> <a href="javascript:comments()"><img src="http://www.logoi.com/media/comments.gif" border=0 alt="Comments" vspace=3 width=101 height=20></a><br> </center> <br><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-4582555942405174"; google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.logoi.com/links/tattoo/get_chinese_tattoo_v.html"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; google_ad_format = "120x600_as"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td><td valign=top> <blockquote><font size=2 face="Arial"> <center> <font face="arial" size=3 color="#0000FF"><strong>GENERAL SIR ARCHIBALD HUNTER</strong><br><font size=2> <i>A knight-errant of the nineteenth century</i> <br><br> <font face="arial" size=2> <br> <table width="600"><tr bgcolor="#F9C51A"><td><small><font color="white">&nbsp;&nbsp; General Sir Archibald Hunter</font></small></td></tr></table> <table cellspacing=17 border="0" width="600"><tr><td valign="top"><font face="arial" size=2> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-4582555942405174"; /* 336x280, created 4/24/09 */ google_ad_slot = "2489762783"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </p><p> Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter, the new Governor of Omdurman, the best-known of the trio of Governors named in a recent cable message, was a major general before he was 40 and for a dozen years before that he had (says Mr G. W. Stevens in one of his articles on the late war) been in the vaguart of all the fighting on the Nile, Ginnis, Argin, Toski, Firket, Abu Hamed, the Atbara, Omdurman hÿC General Hunter has been in the front of them all. He has been Governor of the frontier at Haifa, Governor of the frontier at Dongola, Governor of the frontier at Berber hÿC always on the frontier. When there was fighting he always led the way to it with his blacks whom he loves like children, and who love him like a father. Fourteen years of bugle and bullet by night and day, in summer and winter, fighting Dervishes year in and year out hÿC till fighting Dervishes has come to be a holy mission, pursued with a burning zeal akin to fanaticism. </p><p> Hunter Pasha is the Crusader of the 19th century. In all he is and does he is the true knight-errant, a paladin drifted into the wrong century. He is one of those happy men whom nature has made all in one piece hÿC consistent, simple, unvarying, everything he does is just like him. He is short and thick-set; but that, instead of making him unromantic, only draws your eye to his long sword. From the feather in his helmet to the spurs on his heels, he is all energy and dancing triumph; every movement is vivacious, and he walks with his keen conquering hazel eye looking our and upward, like an eagle's. Sometimes you will see on his face a look of strain and tension, which tells of the wound he always carries with him. Then you will see him lolling under a palm tree, while his staff are sitting on chairs; light brown hair rumpled over his bare head, like a happy school-boy. Reconnoitring almost alone up to the muzzles of the enemy's rifles, charging bare-headed and looing on his blacks, going without his slee to watch over wounded hÿC he is always the same hero out of a book of chivalry. </p><p> He is framed as a brave man even among British officers; you know what that means. But he is much more than a tilting Don Quixote; he is one of the finest leaders of troops in our army. Report has it that the Sirdar knowing his talents and too great for jealousy, was wont to leave the actual fighting largely to Hungar; and he never failed of a masterly victory. It was he, they say who shifted Macdonald into the place of crisis at Omdurman; he who, safe with all his daring, sent for Warchope to second him. Moreover, they say he is as good in an office as in an action. Best of all, "General Archie" can stir and captive and inspire hÿC a born leader of men, the idol of every British officer and every black savage who ever served under him. </p> <img src="http://www.logoi.com/notes/img/general_sir_archibald_hunter.jpg" alt="Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter"> <p align=right> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/end_century.html">End of a Century</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/sir_douglas_forsyth.html">Sir Douglas Forsyth</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/filipino_atrocities.html">Filipino Atrocities</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/tolstoi_expulsion.html">The Expulsion of Count Tolstoi</a><br> <a href="http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Disasters.html">World Disasters: Air, Sea and Space</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/tragedy_in_klondyke.html">Tragedy in Klondyke</a><br> <a href="http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2002/">World Disasters Report 2002</a><br> <a href="http://www.shahon.org">Chinese manuscripts</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/galician_jew_pow_siberia.html">A Galician Jew POW in Siberia</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/titanic/index.html">The Sinking of the Titanic and Other Great Sea Disasters</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/visit_to_benares.html">Visit to Benares</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/aurangzeb_mosque.html">Aurangzeb's Mosque in Benares (Banaras, Varanasi)</a><br> <a href="http://www.logoi.com/notes/symbols-ru.html">8B09A:85 A8<2>;K</a><br> </p> </font> </td></tr></table></blockquote> <table width="600"><tr bgcolor="#F9C51A"><td><small><font color="white">&nbsp;&nbsp; General Sir Archibald Hunter</font></small></td></tr></table> <p align="center"><font face="arial" size="1">2005 <a href="http://www.logoi.com">Logoi.com</a> - All Rights Reserved</font></p> </td></tr> </table> </body></html>