Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum

In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. The Egyptian military met with a series of disasters, including the rout of major expeditions led by hired-in British colonels, William 'Hicks Pasha' and Valentine 'Baker Pasha'.

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