River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
Author: first_name: Winston S.
last_name: Churchill
Language: English
Year: 1902

When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that. <br /><br />The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, it