British Infantryman Vs Mahdist Warrior: Sudan 1884-98 (Knight Ian)(Paperback)

A new study of the battles fought between Queen Victoria's infantry and the formidable Madhist Army in the Sudan, from the Gordon Relief Expedition of 1884-85 to the battle of Omdurman in 1898.

In 1882, the United Kingdom intervened in the affairs of independent Egypt, overthrowing a nationalist revolt, with the intention of securing British strategic interests along the Suez Canal. Subsequently drawn into a series of confrontations in Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, British troops would face a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain.

In a bid to throw off Egyptian colonial rule, in 1881 an Islamic fundamentalist revolt had broken out in the Sudan. It was led by a religious teacher named Mohammed Ahmad Ibn al-SayiidAbdullah, who proclaimed himself al-Mahdi, The Guided One. After routing Egyptian forces led by British officer