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The 2008 novel After Omdurman by John Ferry is also partly set during the 1898 re-conquest of Sudan, with the book's lead character, Evelyn Winters, playing a peripheral role in the fighting. [31] The main focus of Jake Arnott 's The Devil's Paintbrush (2009) is the life of Hector MacDonald but also includes the battle and Kitchener's railway ...
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 11:31, 5 February 2025: 1,124 × 1,300 (273 KB): Ich: larger: 14:24, 27 January 2013: 692 × 800 (63 KB): Fæ {{Information |description = {{en|''General Kitchener and the Anglo-egyptian Nile Campaign, 1898''<br/> The defeated leader of the Sudanese (Dervish) forces at the Battle of Atbara, Emir Mahmoud as a prisoner of war in Wadi Halfa ...
English: General Kitchener and the Anglo-egyptian Nile Campaign, 1898 Emir Mahmoud, leader of the Sudanese (Dervish) forces is captured at the Battle of Atbara. He is shown with a prisoner escort formed of men from the 10th Sudanese Battalion. The bloodstains on his jibba are from a bayonet wound to his left leg.
The Mahdist War [b] (Arabic: الثورة المهدية, romanized: ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.
Gregson is believed to have been the author of an album of 232 photographs called "Khartoum 1898", taken during the Anglo-Egyptian military campaign in Sudan from 1896 – 98. These photographs in the archives of the National Army Museum , London, have been attributed to Gregson and constitute an important body of photographic records of this ...
The British government asked General Gordon, former Governor-General of Sudan, to go to Khartoum and aid in the evacuation of Egyptian soldiers, civilian employees and their families. Travelling from London , General Gordon reached Khartoum on 18 February 1884.
The Queen's Sudan Medal was authorised in March 1899 and awarded to British and Egyptian forces which took part in the Sudan campaign between June 1896 and September 1898. [1] The campaign reflected the British desire to reverse the defeats of the Mahdist War in the 1880s, as well as concern that France and other European powers would take ...