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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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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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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Scramble for Africa (section Mahdist War)
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Military railways (section Mahdist War)
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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Egyptian Army (section World War I)
(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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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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Battle of Ginnis (category Battles of the Mahdist War)
battle of the Mahdist War that was fought on December 30, 1885, between soldiers of the Anglo-Egyptian Army and warriors of the Mahdist State. The battle...
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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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The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed...
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Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (redirect from Abdallahi (Mahdist))
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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British merchants in Ethiopia and the neutrality of Menelik II in the Mahdist War, the British signed the Anglo-Ethiopian treaty of 1897. The agreement...
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administration of Sudan in the hands of the Egyptians. At the outbreak of the Mahdist War, the British attempted to evacuate Anglo-Egyptian garrisons from Sudan...
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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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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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