Fire and Sword in the Sudan

Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, GCVO, KCMG, CB was born on 7 June 1857, in Ober-Sankt-Veit, Hietzing, Vienna, Austria. When Slatin was 16 and studying at the Viennese commercial academy his father died. And so Slatin began the first steps that initially took him to Alexcandria to work in a bookshop and then travelling with the German businessman and consul Rosset to Khartoum. From there Slatin went through Kordofan to Dar Nuba, exploring the mountains of that regio