| Mahdist War | |||||||||
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 Major events of the Mahdist War. From clockwise left: the Battle of Abu Klea, the Battle of El Teb, Death of Charles Gordon at Khartoum, Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, the Battle of Ferkeh, and the Battle of Rejaf | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Mahdist State | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Charles Gordon † William Hicks † Garnet Wolseley Herbert Kitchener Tewfik Pasha Rauf Pasha Hassan Ismail Pasha Yohannes IV † Alula Engida 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 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 5,000,000+ Sudanese dead[6] | |||||||||
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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5 million of the Sudan's 8.5 million people died or were killed during the period of Mahdist rule.
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