03012cam a2200361 4500 535224034 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781859595183 1859595189 B00O8TQZ4O Amazon 485ebaec-fa55-4d92-a0de-6e756e1c3f6a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2004875 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Warner, Philip. Dervish [Libby eBook] : The Rise and Fall of An African Empire. Class Publishing, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 21MB. Format: OverDrive Open EPUB eBook, Filesize: 21MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. 19th Century. HTML:<p>Within these pages the vivid and colourful story of a remarkable episode in the 'high empire' period of British history. The Mahdi's rising in the Sudan in the 1880's, which started as a localised Holy War against the 'decadent' Turkish/Egyprian overlords, was soon to engulf a million square miles of territory and force the hand of the British Liberal Government, whose reluctance to get involved paved the way for the early disasters of the Hicks' expedition and Gordon's death at Khartoum. The narrative makes full use of diaries and first-hand reports, including those of celebrated novelist Rider Haggard's brother Andrew or Father Ohrwalder (the Austrian missionary who spent ten years of captivity in the Mahdi's camp), and of the adventurer Rudolf Slatin. These brilliantly describe the growth and strength of the Mahdist movement and the extraordinary devotion and discipline of the Dervish troops. Matching such opponents with stoic endurance were the British, Egyptian and Sudanese soldiers, and the resulting military engagements saw amazing feats of courage and daring-do on both sides. The Dervish Empire outlasted the Mahdi by thirteen years. It ended in the battle of Omdurman and Kitchener's re-conquest of the Sudan, which was well supported by Reginald Wingate's military intelligence operations. While lasting for a brief period, it had been at the expense not only of the neighbouring Abyssinians but also of the European white man, at a time when Britain was approaching the zenith of its imperial power.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/9781859595183?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/9781859595183?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/9781859595183?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/9781859595183?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Open EPUB eBook) TXLIV