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Follow the story of British military involvement in Egypt and then Sudan during the 1880s and 1890's. Charles Gordon & the Siege of Khartoum Battle of Abu Kl...
In 1880-81 Al Mahdi became convinced that the rulers of Egypt and the Sudan were all corrupt puppets of the infidel Europeans and that the ruling class in general had abandoned true Islam. He...
Australia’s First Overseas Battle: The Sudan Expedition of 1885! Discover how Australian soldiers joined British forces in Sudan during the Mahdist War, emba...
Eighteen years of war resulted in the creation of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956), a de jure condominium of the British Empire, and the Kingdom of Egypt, in which Britain had de facto control over Sudan.
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.
British forces occupied Egypt in 1882 to safeguard the Suez Canal and British financial interests. This invasion led to further intervention in the neighbouring Sudan, where British, Egyptian and Indian troops fought two bitter wars against rebellious Islamic tribesmen in hostile desert conditions.
15 lip 2009 · On June 29, 1881, a Sudanese Islamic cleric, Muhammad Ahmad, proclaimed himself the Mahdi. Playing into decades of disenchantment over Egyptian rule and new resentment against the British, Ahmad immediately transformed an incipient political movement into a fundamentally religious one.
