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Mahdist War

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Also known as Anglo-Sudan War, Sudanese Mahdist Revolt, Sudan Campaign, Mahdist Revolt, British-Sudanese War

British colonial war

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Vinony's link graph records 979 inbound references to Mahdist War, and connects out to Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley and 1067 mm track gauge.

It sits within the topics 19th century in Africa, 19th century in Egypt and 19th-century military history of the United Kingdom.

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Key facts

Date
Date 1881 ( 1881 ) –1899 ( 1899 )
Location
Sudan , South Sudan , Egypt , Eritrea , Ethiopia , Uganda
Result
Allied victory Sudanese invasions of neighbours repelled
Territorial changes
Establishment of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan , a polity jointly ruled by Britain and Egypt Kassala temporarily occupied by Italy Congo secures the Lado Enclave until 1910

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Commons category
Mahdi war
start time
1881-08-01
end time
1899-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Belligerents

United Kingdom  •  Egypt  •  India  • Canada  • New South Wales

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mahdist War” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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