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Soon in open revolt against the Egyptians, Muhammad Ahmad proclaimed himself the Mahdi, the promised redeemer of the Islamic world. In August 1881 the then-governor of the Sudan, Rauf Pasha , sent two companies of infantry each with one machine gun to arrest him.
The siege of Khartoum (also known as the battle of Khartoum or fall of Khartoum) took place from 13 March 1884 to 26 January 1885. Sudanese Mahdist forces captured the city of Khartoum from its Egyptian garrison, thereby gaining control over the whole of Sudan. Egypt had conquered Sudan in 1820, but had itself come under British domination in 1882.
15 lip 2009 · The Mahdist Revolution was an Islamic revolt against the Egyptian government in the Sudan. An apocalyptic branch of Islam, Mahdism incorporated the idea of a golden age in which the Mahdi, translated as “the guided one,” would restore the glory of Islam to the earth.
The Battle of Tofrek [Note 1] was fought on 22 March 1885 some 5 miles inland from the port of Suakin on the Red Sea coast of Sudan. A contingent of some 3,000 troops from the British and Indian "Suakin Field Force" led by Major General Sir John Carstairs McNeill (under the overall command of General Gerald Graham ) was attacked by a Mahdist ...
Siege of Khartoum (March 13, 1884–January 26, 1885), military blockade of the capital of the Sudan by the Mahdists. The city was defended by an Egyptian garrison under British General Charles Gordon. After being refused British support, Gordon was killed and the city was lost to the Mahdists.
The history of the Sudan can be divided into roughly four distinct eras during the time period 1881-98; 1) the rise of the Mahdi and the defeat of the Egyptian Army, roughly 1881-83, 2) the era of the first British involvement, 1884-85,
The Sudan campaign followed two distinct phases. The first was an attempt to restore Egyptian authority over its colony, and the ongoing resistance from the proclamation of Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah as ‘Mahdi’ in 1881.
