Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and ... - Colonel Mike Snook - Google Books

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In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon…