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  • Khartoum, 1884-1885

    The Failed Mission of Charles Gordon and the Nile Relief Expedition

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Khartoum, 1884–1885: The Failed Mission of Charles Gordon and the Nile Relief Expedition examines the final phase of Charles Gordon’s career in the Sudan during the Mahdi’s revolution. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including eyewitness accounts and unpublished archival material, the book provides a rigorous analysis of Gordon’s role in implementing British policy to evacuate Egyptian ... Leer más

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  • Gordon and the Sudan

    Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877-1880

    This is a study on the period preceding the Mahdist revolution in the Sudan. It analyses the administration and political developments under the governor-generalship of Gordon. ... Leer más

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  • The First Jihad

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  • Enemy on the Euphrates

    The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921

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    In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for ... Leer más

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