Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahdiism and of Subsequent Events in the Sudan to the Present Time |
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Abd el Kader Abu Girgeh Abyssinian advance Agha Amarar ammunition Arabs arrived Assuan attack Baggara Bahr el Ghazal battalion Berber besieged Cairo Camel Corps camp Captain captured cavalry chief Colonel command Darfur defeat desert despatched Dongola Egypt Egyptian army El Fasher El Obeid Emin emir enemy enemy's expedition Fasher fight Fiki fire force frontier Galabat garrison Girgeh Gordon Pasha Government governor guns Hadendowa Halfa Handub Hassan Hicks Hicks Pasha infantry Jebel joined Karamallah Kassala Khalifa Abdullah Khartum Kheir Khor killed Kordofan Lado large number letter Lieutenant Lord Lupton Mahdi Mahdiism Makaraka March miles Mohammed Ahmed Morghani mudir Mussa Nejumi Nile Obeid officers Omdurman orders Osman Digna position Prophet province rebels received reinforcements religion returned revolt river Saleh Sarras Sennar sent Senussi Sheikh siege Slatin soldiers steamers Suakin Sudan Sudanese Sultan surrender Tokar town tribes victory village Wadelai zariba Zogal Zubeir
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Page 46 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 617 - A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, organised by ISMAIL, Khedive of Egypt.
Page 308 - ... to failure. It proved, in fact, to be wholly unproductive of results. A year later, the Khalifa addressed letters to the Queen, the Sultan, and the Khedive, which breathed the true spirit of Mahdiism. The letter to the Queen terminated in the following eloquent, if somewhat bombastic peroration : " And thou. if thou wilt not yield to the command of God, and enter among the people of Islam and the followers of the Mahdi — grace be upon him — come thyself and thy armies and fight with the host...
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Page 169 - Gordon, it is said, made a gesture of scorn with his right hand, and turned his back, where he received another spear wound, which caused him to fall forward, and was most likely his mortal wound. The other three men, closely following Shahin, then rushed in, and, cutting at the prostrate body with their swords, must have killed him in a few seconds. His death occurred just before sunrise. He made no resistance, and did not fire a shot from his revolver.
Page 459 - Dufile to Wadelai ; that the work of transport between Wadelai and Tunguru will be resumed upon the accomplishment of the other task. When he went away from here we were informed that he was deposed, and that Emin Pasha and he were sentenced to death by the rebel officers. We now learn that the rebel officers, ten in number, and all their faction, are desirous of proceeding to Egypt; we may suppose, therefore, that Selim Bey's party is in the ascendant again. " Shukri Aga, the chief of the Mswa station—...
Page 459 - Pasha in the latter part of April, 1888, just twelve months ago. We handed him his letters from the Khedive and his Government, and also the first instalment of relief, and asked him whether we were to have the pleasure of his company to Zanzibar. He replied that his decision depended on that of his people. This was the first adverse news that we received. Instead of meeting with a number of people only too anxious to leave Africa, it was questionable whether there would be any except a few Egyptian...
Page 455 - not satisfied with their victory, pursued the retreating enemy till sunset, and after that the cavalry still continued pursuing till almost all were killed. They followed them even as far as the caves and forests, where they tried to conceal themselves, but they were 1 The " Ansar " (literally " Helpers ") was the name given to the first converts to Islam made at Medina after the Hegira.
Page 460 - It has been current talk in the province that we were only a party of conspirators and adventurers, that the letters of the Khedive and Nubar Pasha were forgeries concocted by the vile Christians Stanley and Casati, assisted by Mohammed Emin Pasha. So elated have the rebels been by their bloodless victory over the Pasha and Mr. Jephson that they have confidently boasted of their purpose to entrap me by cajoling words, and strip our expedition of every article belonging to it, and send us adrift into...
Page 198 - By those for whom he lived, he died. His land Awoke too late, and crowned dead brows with praise. He, 'neath the blue that burns o'er Libyan sand, Put off the burden of heroic days.