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  2. East African campaign (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    (The Kingdom of Egypt remained neutral during the Second World War but the terms of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936 allowed the British to occupy Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.) [7] Egypt, the Suez Canal, French Somaliland and British Somaliland were also vulnerable to invasion but the Italian General Staff had planned for a war after 1942 ...

  3. Egypt in World War II - Wikipedia

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    World War II affected many lives in Egypt. Commonwealth graves of victims shown here in Marsa Matrouh, Egypt. Egypt was a major battlefield in the North African campaign during the Second World War, being the location of the First and Second Battles of El Alamein.

  4. History of Sudan - Wikipedia

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    The Sudan question: the dispute over the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, 1884–1951 (1952) Duncan, J.S.R. The Sudan: a record of achievement (1952), from the British perspective; Gee, Martha Bettis (2009). Piece work/peace work : working together for peace and Sudan : mission study for children and teacher's guide. Women's Division, General Board ...

  5. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Egypt–Sudan relations - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Northern front, East Africa, 1940 - Wikipedia

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    Kassala was to be recaptured early in January 1941, to prevent an Italian invasion and the 4th Indian Division was to be transferred from Egypt to Sudan from the end of December. With the success of Compass, east Africa was made second priority after Egypt and it was intended to have defeated the Italian forces in Ethiopia by April.

  8. Kingdom of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Egypt (Arabic: المملكة المصرية, romanized: Al-Mamlaka Al-Miṣreyya, lit. 'The Egyptian Kingdom') was the legal form of the Egyptian state during the latter period of the Muhammad Ali dynasty's reign, from the United Kingdom's recognition of Egyptian independence in 1922 until the abolition of the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan in 1953 following the Egyptian ...

  9. Siege of Khartoum - Wikipedia

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    Sudanese Mahdist forces captured the city of Khartoum, Sudan, from its Egyptian garrison, thereby gaining control over the whole of Turco-Egyptian Sudan. Egypt had conquered Sudan in 1820, but had itself come under British domination in 1882. In 1881, the Mahdist War began in Sudan, led by Muhammad Ahmad who claimed to be the Mahdi.