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| Picture No | 10217594 |
| Date | 1887 |
| Description | Sir Henry Morton Stanley with a Maxim Automatic Machine-Gun, |
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Engraving of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, sitting astride a Maxim Automatic Machine-gun, 1887. At that time, Stanley was engaged by the British Government in leading an expedition to find and rescue Emin Pasha, the Governor of the Egyptian Equatorial Province, who had gone into hiding during the Mahdi Rising of 1886.
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| Source | Illustrated London News. 1887. bottom of cover page. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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