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The Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan in 1896–1899 was a reconquest of territory lost by the Khedives of Egypt in 1884–1885 during the Mahdist War. The British had failed to organise an orderly withdrawal of the Egyptian Army from Sudan , and the defeat at Khartoum left only Suakin and Equatoria under Egyptian control after 1885.
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Arabic: السودان الإنجليزي المصري as-Sūdān al-Inglīzī al-Maṣrī) was a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt between 1899 and 1956, corresponding mostly to the territory of present-day South Sudan and Sudan. Legally, sovereignty and administration were shared between both Egypt and the ...
The Sudan Archive was founded in 1957, the year after Sudanese independence, to collect and preserve the papers of administrators from the Sudan Political Service, missionaries, soldiers, business men, doctors, agriculturalists, teachers and others who had served or lived in the Sudan during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium
While Egypt was a province of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt conquered Sudan, led by the Ottoman Governor Muhammad Ali Pasha, founding the city Khartoum.After the Egyptian-Ottoman Wars from 1831 to 1841, Egypt became an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire, governed by the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.
In 1899, France agreed to cede the area to Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. From 1898, the United Kingdom and Egypt administered all of present-day Sudan as Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, but northern and southern Sudan were administered as separate provinces of the condominium. In the very early 1920s, the British passed the Closed Districts Ordinances which ...
The battle proved to be the turning point in the reconquest of Sudan by the British and Egyptian coalition. [3] [4] The defeated Emir Mahmud with the British Director of Military Intelligence Francis Wingate after the battle. By 1898, the combined British and Egyptian army was heading south, advancing up the Nile into Sudan.
Opening of the railway in Rhodesia, 1899 Following the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War in 1896, the British proclaimed a protectorate over the Ashanti Kingdom. Egypt; British Cyrenaica (1943-1951, now part of Libya) British Tripolitania (1943-1951, now part of Libya) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956) British Somaliland (now part of Somalia) British ...
Map of Kitchener's supply and communication lines in Sudan. Kitchener's expedition embarked in March 1896, leaving Egypt behind and entering Mahdist Sudan later that month. [14] His column advanced along the Nile, using the river for resupply and communication, while laying track around the unnavigable sections. [15]