author
Bennet Burleigh
d. 1914
A larger-than-life Victorian war correspondent, he lived the kind of life most adventure novels would reject as too improbable. His reports for the Daily Telegraph made him one of the best-known conflict journalists of his era.
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Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
by Bennet Burleigh
About the author
Born in Glasgow around 1840, Bennet Burleigh began life as Bennet Graham Burley and later adopted the surname Burleigh. Before becoming famous in journalism, he had a turbulent early career that included service on the Confederate side during the American Civil War and a dramatic reputation for escape, reinvention, and risk-taking.
He went on to become a celebrated war correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph, reporting from major conflicts in places including Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa. Contemporary accounts remembered him as one of the last great old-style correspondents: bold, tireless, and often close to the action he described.
Burleigh died on June 17, 1914. Today he is remembered less as a conventional literary author than as a vivid chronicler of war whose own life story was nearly as extraordinary as the events he covered.