1881–1899 Sudanese revolt against Anglo-Egyptian rule
Mahdist War
Depiction of the Battle of Omdurman
Date
1881 (1881)–1899 (1899)
Location
Sudan, South Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda
Result
Allied victory
Sudanese invasions of neighbors repelled
Territorial changes
Britain and Egypt took over Sudan and turned it into a condominium known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Kassala temporarily occupied by Italy
Belligerents
United Kingdom
Egypt
India[1]
Canada[2][3]
Ethiopia
Italy[4]
• Colony of Eritrea
Congo Free State
Mahdist State
Commanders and leaders
Charles Gordon † William Hicks † Garnet Wolseley Herbert Kitchener Tewfik Pasha Rauf Pasha Hassan Ismail Pasha Yohannes IV † Ras Alula Tekle Haimanot Oreste Baratieri Giuseppe Arimondi Louis-Napoléon Chaltin
Muhammad Ahmad (WIA) Abdallahi ibn Muhammad † Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur Othman Digna (WIA) Babikr Bedri Hamdan Abu 'Anja Mohammed Zain (POW) Musa Abu Higel Umar Salih Khalil al-Khuzani
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Mahdist War
Mahdist uprising (1881–1885)
Aba
Shaykan
El Teb
Tamai
Khartoum
Abu Klea
Abu Kru
Kirbekan
Tofrek
Ginnis
British-Egyptian expeditions (1885–1889)
Emin Pasha Expedition
Dufile
Suakin
Toski
Ethiopian campaigns (1885–1889)
Kufit
Guté Dili
Gallabat
Italian campaigns (1890–1894)
1st Agordat
Serobeti
2nd Agordat
Kassala
British-Egyptian reconquest (1896–1899)
Ferkeh
Rejaf
Abu Hamed
Atbara
Omdurman
Umm Diwaykarat
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Scramble for Africa
South Africa (1879)
South Africa (1880)
Tunisia (1881)
Sudan (1881)
Egypt (1882)
Wassoulou (1883)
Madagascar (1883)
Eritrea (1885)
Equatoria (1886–89)
Somalia (1888–1924)
Congo (1895)
Dahomey (1890)
Mashonaland (1890)
Katanga (1891−92)
Dahomey (1892)
Matabeleland (1893)
Morocco (1893–94)
Wassoulou (1894)
Ashanti (1895)
South Africa (1895)
Ethiopia (1896)
Matabeleland (1896)
Zanzibar (1896)
Benin (1897)
Wassoulou (1898)
Chad (1898)
Fashoda (1898)
South Africa (1899)
Somaliland (1900)
Aro (1901)
Angola (1902)
Namibia (1904)
Tanganyika (1905)
Morocco (1905–06)
South Africa (1906)
Morocco (1907–34)
Mufilo (1907)
Morocco (1909)
Ouaddai (1909)
Morocco (1911)
Libya (1911–12)
South Africa (1914)
Darfur (1916)
The Mahdist War[a] (Arabic: الثورة المهدية, romanized: ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, 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 creation of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956), a de jure condominium of the British Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt in which Britain had de facto control over Sudan. The Sudanese launched several unsuccessful invasions of their neighbours, expanding the scale of the conflict to include not only Britain and Egypt but also the Italian Empire, the Congo Free State and the Ethiopian Empire.
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Global Information
Mahdist State
Charles Gordon †
Tewfik Pasha
Yohannes IV †
Oreste Baratieri
Louis-Napoléon Chaltin
