Mahdi uprising

Mahdist War
Depiction of the Battle of Omdurman (1898).
Date 1881 (1881)–1899 (1899) (18 years) Location Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda Result British-Egyptian-Italian victory Territorial changes Sudan becomes the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the British Empire
Belligerents
British Empire  Canada Australia Khedivate of Egypt British India  Congo Free State Ethiopian Empire (1885–1889)  Italy	Mahdist Sudan
Commanders and leaders
Charles Gordon † Garnet Wolseley Herbert Kitchener Louis Napoléon Chaltin Yohannes IV † Oreste Baratieri Giuseppe Arimondi	Muhammad Ahmad † Abdallahi ibn Muhammad †

 British Empire

 Congo Free State

The Mahdist War (Arabic: الثورة المهدية‎ ath-Thawra al-Mahdī; 1881–99) 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 "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain. Eighteen years of war resulted in the joint-rule state of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956), a condominium of the British Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt.

The British participation in the war is called the Sudan Campaign, which is vividly described in The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899) by Winston Churchill, a participant in the war; other names for this war are the "Mahdist Revolt", the "Anglo–Sudan War" and the "Sudanese Mahdist Revolt".

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