Pref. signed: Reginald Wingate, major-general, sirdar and governor-general of the Sudan. Vol. 2, chapter 1-2 not printed. "A certain number of copies of each chapter in this volume [vol. 2: Routes] ...

THE Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, or Black Country, is a distinct menace to the American cotton market. It is an immense area. It is practically as long as the distance from the Canadian border to New Orleans ...

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I was riding a handy, sure-footed grey Arab polo pony. We wheeled and began to gallop . . . Bright flags appeared as if by magic, and I saw arriving from nowhere Emirs on horseback . . . The Dervishes ...

A new book uses primary sources to tell the story of Britain’s 19th-century military interventions in Egypt and Sudan, writes ...

In 1884 a Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, ...

The Mahdist War was a British colonial war of the late 19th century, which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the ...