25 APRIL 1868, Page 1
On the 1st of April Sir Robert Napier was within
thirty miles of Magdala. Quitting the direct southern road, he had performed an operation analogous to the passage of St. Bernard in 1800 by Napoleon,—he had marched through the eastern cud of Wadela upon the Jidda and Bashilo, thus turning Magdala and approaching Theodore from the rear. Nay, the British Commander intended to assail his antagonist by availing himself of the road which the King, with so much labour, had made for his great guns. The labour of Napier's march must have been severe, and he had still to cross two ravines three thousand feet deep, in order to reach the outworks of Magdala.
