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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 ...
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Ruins of the Egyptian fort at Fashoda, photographed in 1898. Fashoda was founded by the Egyptian army in 1855 in a boggy area and was situated at one of the only places where a boat could unload. The area was inhabited by the Shilluk people , and by the mid-1870s, Fashoda was a market town.
Pages in category "1898 in Sudan" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Battle of Atbara; F.