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Mahdist war

Mahdist War
Bataille d'Ondurman 2.jpg
Depiction of the Battle of Omdurman (1898).
Date 1881 (1881)–1899 (1899)
(18 years)
Location Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda
Result British-Egyptian victory
Territorial
changes
Sudan becomes the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the British Empire
Belligerents

 British Empire

 Congo Free State
Ethiopian Empire Ethiopian Empire (1885–1889)
 Italy
Mahdist Sudan
Commanders and leaders
British Empire Charles Gordon 
British Empire Garnet Wolseley
British Empire Herbert Kitchener
Congo Free State Louis Napoléon Chaltin
Ethiopian Empire Yohannes IV 
Italy Oreste Baratieri
Italy Giuseppe Arimondi
Muhammad Ahmad 
Abdallahi ibn Muhammad 

 British Empire

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".

Following the invasion by Muhammad Ali in 1819, Sudan was governed by an Egyptian administration. Because of the heavy taxes it imposed and because of the bloody start of the Turkish-Egyptian rule in Sudan, this colonial system was resented by the Sudanese people.


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