Gippies

Government, Gordon began to form an army of his own, making soldiers of the Soudanese, -- the "Gippies," as our own soldiers now call them.

The Story of General Gordon Jeanie Lang

The "Gippies" looked without flinching straight into the eyes of the dervishes, and fired volleys that would have done credit to a British regiment.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Taaisha rode, neither horse nor man lived to get within one hundred yards of our Soudanese and Gippies.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

And the Gippies are as brave and soldier-like a body of troops as is to be found.

The Story of General Gordon Jeanie Lang

Also he could not wait for the relief party, for his Gippies and the friendlies were famishing, dying of thirst.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

It was like the patient fellah, when the Arabs, in pursuit of Wyndham and his Gippies, suddenly cut in between him and the house, to deliver himself over to the conqueror, with his hand upon his head in sign of obedience.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

Here he was, shut up with Gippies who had no real faith in him, in the house of a Sheikh whose servants would cut his throat on no provocation at all; and not an eighth of a mile away was a horde of Arabs -- a circle of death through which it was impossible to break with the men in his command.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

If Hassan got through to Kerbat his Gippies here would no doubt be relieved, and there would be no more blood on his head.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

The last thing Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn -- and this is told of him by the Gippies themselves-was to cough up the bullet from his throat, and spit it out upon the ground.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

They were five to one, and his Gippies were demoralised.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897