British infantryman vs Mahdist warrior : Sudan 1884-98
Knight, Ian, 1956-2021
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In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt & seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon sent to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic fundamentalist revolt had broken out in the Sudan, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah. In 1884, Mahdist forces besieged the Sudanese capital of Khartoum; Colonel Charles Gordon was sent to the city with orders to evacuate British personnel, but refused to leave. Although the British despatched a relief column to rescue Gordon, the Mahdists stormed Khartoum in January 1885 & he was killed. British troops abandoned much of the Sudan, but renewed their efforts to reconquer it in the late 1890s, in a bloody campaign that would decide the region's fate for generations.
Main title:
British infantryman vs Mahdist warrior : Sudan 1884-98 / Ian Knight ; illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri.
Author:
Knight, Ian, 1956-, authorRuggeri, Raffaele, illustrator
Imprint:
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2021.
Collation:
80 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series title:
Combat ; 58.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781472845610 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
962.403
Local class:
B/HF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2533571
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