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    The Mahdist War (Arabic: الثورة المهدية, romanized: ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin...
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  • Look up Mahdist or Mahdism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mahdist or Mahdism may refer to: Mahdist (follower), in the context of the Mahdi, the prophesied...
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    The Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, was a state based on a religious and political movement launched in 1881 by Muhammad...
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  • Blue Nile clashes (2022–2023) Mahdist War (1881–1899) Heglig Crisis (2012) South Sudanese wars of independence, the civil wars of 1955–1972 and 1983–2005...
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    administration of Egypt. A joint British-Egyptian military force entered the Mahdist War. Additionally the Egyptian province of Equatoria (located in South Sudan)...
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  • Battle of Umm Diwaykarat (category Battles of the Mahdist War)
    defeat of the Mahdist State in Sudan, when Anglo-Egyptian forces under the command of Lord Kitchener defeated what was left of the Mahdist armies under...
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    Dervish (section Mahdists)
    term dervish rather loosely, linking it to, among other things, the Mahdist War in Sudan and other conflicts by Islamic military leaders. In such cases...
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    Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan (category Mahdist War)
    reconquest of territory lost by the Khedives of Egypt in 1884–1885 during the Mahdist War. The British had failed to organise an orderly withdrawal of the Egyptian...
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    Battle of Omdurman (category Battles of the Mahdist War)
    (sirdar) major general Horatio Herbert Kitchener and a Sudanese army of the Mahdist State, led by Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (the Khalifa), the successor to the...
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  • 21st Lancers (category Cavalry regiments of the British Army in World War I)
    Bengal Native Cavalry. In 1898 the regiment served in Sudan during the Mahdist War, as the only British cavalry unit involved. It was there that the full...
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    result of war: Lord Rosebery – one son killed in action in the First World War H. H. Asquith – one son killed in action in the First World War (during his...
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    Siege of Khartoum (category Battles of the Mahdist War)
    but had itself come under British domination in 1882. In 1881, the Mahdist War began in Sudan, led by Muhammad Ahmad who claimed to be the Mahdi. The...
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    The Opium Wars (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Yāpiàn zhànzhēng) were two conflicts waged between China and Western powers...
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    Battle of Gallabat (category Battles of the Mahdist War involving Ethiopia)
    Battle of Metemma, was fought on 9–10 March 1889 during the Mahdist War between the Mahdist Sudanese and Ethiopian forces. It is a critical event in Ethiopian...
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  • British Empire. Served in the 19th Hussars. Also served in the Mahdist War and World War I. James Richard Miles (1879–1977) – British Empire. Last British...
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    May) 1891. It was used in the Russo-Japanese War and Russian Civil War. In 1896-98 during the Mahdist War, Kitchener built the Sudan Military Railroad...
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    Herbert Chermside (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    he took part in the Suakin Expedition of 1884, against Muhammad Ahmad's Mahdist forces and served as governor-general of the Red Sea littoral. He was transferred...
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    Battle of Atbara (category Battles of the Mahdist War)
    Battle of the Atbara River took place during the Mahdist War. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Mahdists on the banks of the River Atbara. The battle...
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    The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought...
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    The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire,...
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    The New Zealand Wars (Māori: Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa) took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side...
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    The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent...
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    and Muhammad Sharif. Abdullah was given command of a large part of the Mahdist army, and during the next four years led them in a series of victories...
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    Winston Churchill (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns...
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    Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    staff college graduates requested by Kitchener for a campaign in the Mahdist War in the Sudan. He may have been picked to keep an eye on Kitchener, as...
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    The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States...
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    The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those...
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    Muhammad Ahmad (category People of the Mahdist War)
    Abdallahi ibn Muhammad took over the administration of the nascent Mahdist State. The Mahdist State, weakened by his successor's autocratic rule and inability...
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    (1866–1869) Egyptian–Ethiopian War Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878) Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Mahdist War Anglo-Egyptian War as well as several expeditions...
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    Raymond de Montmorency (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    representative peer, who served in the Crimean War, the Indian Rebellion, Abyssinia and the Mahdist War, and his wife Rachel Mary Lumley Godolphin Michel...
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