The Guns of El Kebir

News of Ahmed Arabi's uprising against the Anglo-French in Egypt�has caused great alarm in London. The French opt not to fight and retire from the country, but the British land a force led by Sir Garnet Wolseley. Simon Fonthill, one-time subaltern and ex-Captain in the North West Frontier�s Royal Corps of Guides, and 352 Jenkins, his ex-batman and servant, are pulled from retirement and ordered�to�venture into the desert ahead of Wolseley's hastily assembled army. While observing the movements and location of the Egyptian force, Simon quickly realizes that bloodshed is ahead at�Tel-el-Kebir.