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    The Battle of Shaykan was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Hicks Pasha and the forces of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi...
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    William Hicks (Indian Army officer) (category British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
    Egyptian army that was defeated at the Battle of Shaykan, in which he was killed and decapitated. After the close of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, he entered...
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    put down the uprising, was defeated by the Mahdi's army during the Battle of Shaykan. Another force, this time sent by the British government, and led...
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    Frank Vizetelly (category British people of the Mahdist War)
    reported in several parts of the world. He was presumed killed in Sudan during the Battle of Shaykan. Frank was the son of James Henry Vizetelly (1790–1838)...
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    officer William Hicks near Kashgil, in the Battle of Shaykan. The defeat of Hicks also resulted in the fall of Darfur to the Ansār, which until then had...
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    were martyred in the Battle of Shaykan. The climates he lived in were free to attract and pull him, as he did not discover the queen of acting except when...
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    Lupton wrote to Emin telling him that Hicks had been wiped out in the Battle of Shaykan and Slatin had surrendered Darfur. The Mahdist Emir Karamallah was...
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    Rudolf Carl von Slatin (category Honorary companions of the Order of the Bath)
    the capital of Kordofan, severing all Slatin's links with Khartoum. When Hicks Pasha's expedition was annihilated at the Battle of Shaykan in 1883, Slatin...
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    Abdel Halim Mohamed (category Recipients of the Order of the Righteous Son of Sudan)
    defeat of an Egyptian army led by William Hicks at the battle of Shaykan in 1883 and the siege of Khartoum in 1885, before his death at the Battle of Toski...
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