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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...
Australia’s First Overseas Battle: The Sudan Expedition of 1885! Discover how Australian soldiers joined British forces in Sudan during the Mahdist War, emba...
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 captains of the two companies were each promised promotion if their soldiers were the ones to return the Mahdi to the governor.
22 paź 2017 · Benjamin and Awad run Sudan's national film archive. The two men, who've worked together for more than 40 years, are devoted to protecting their country's visual memories. Home to some 13,000...
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 ...
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, 3) the rebuilding of the Egyptian Army, 1886-95, and 4) the reconquest of the Sudan, 1896-98.
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.
