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 ...

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 ...

CAIRO: The Egyptian Government dem­an­d­ed on Thursday [Nov 16] before a wildly che­ering Parliament that Britain should get out of the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan immediately. In an advance notice ...