The Dash for Khartoum

An English adventure novel from 1892. In India, two babies are mixed up: the son of a captain and the son of a sergeant. Unable to tell which one is his own, Captain Clinton raises both boys as twins, Rupert and Edgar. At sixteen, Edgar is told by a stranger that she is his real mother. Refusing to keep a place that may not be his, Edgar runs away, enlists under a false name and leaves with the army for Egypt, then travels up the Nile with the expedition sent to relieve Khartoum, besieged in 1884. A story of war and brotherly friendship that closely follows a real military campaign.