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Battle of Ferkeh

Index Battle of Ferkeh

The Battle of Ferkeh (or Firket) occurred during the Mahdist War when an army of the Mahdist Sudanese was surprised and wiped out by the British and Egyptian forces under Sir Herbert Kitchener on 7 June 1896. [1]

14 relations: Anglo-Egyptian invasion of Sudan, Battle of Ginnis, Bryan Mahon, Charles Townshend (British Army officer), Curt von Morgen, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Karam Allāh Muḥammad Kurkusāwī, Khedive's Sudan Medal (1897), List of conflicts in Sudan, Mahdist War, Reginald Wingate, Timeline of the British Army, 1896, 1896 in the United Kingdom.

Anglo-Egyptian invasion of Sudan

The Anglo-Egyptian invasion of Sudan in 1896–1899 was a reconquest of territory lost by the Khedives of Egypt in 1884 and 1885 during the Mahdist War.

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Battle of Ginnis

The Battle of Ginnis (also known as the Battle of Gennis) was a minor battle of the Mahdist War that was fought on December 30, 1885, between soldiers of the Anglo-Egyptian Army and Mahdist Sudanese warriors of the Dervish State.

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Bryan Mahon

General Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon (2 April 1862 – 29 September 1930) was an Irish born general of the British Army and Senator of the Irish Free State.

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Charles Townshend (British Army officer)

Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, (21 February 1861 – 18 May 1924) was a British Imperial soldier who during the First World War led an overreaching military campaign in Mesopotamia, which led to the defeat and destruction of his command.

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Curt von Morgen

Curt Ernst von Morgenland (1 November 1858 in Neiße – 15 February 1928 in Lübeck) was a Prussian explorer and officer, later General of Infantry during World War I. He was a recipient of Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves.

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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916), was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War.

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Karam Allāh Muḥammad Kurkusāwī

Karam Allāh Muḥammad Kurkusāwī (died 1903) was a Dongolāwī Mahdist emir (amīr).

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Khedive's Sudan Medal (1897)

The Khedive's Sudan Medal was a campaign medal awarded by the Khedivate of Egypt for service during the reconquest of the Sudan, the final part of the Mahdist War.

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List of conflicts in Sudan

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Mahdist War

The Mahdist War (الثورة المهدية ath-Thawra al-Mahdī; 1881–99) was a British colonial war of the late 19th century which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, 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.

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Reginald Wingate

General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet, (25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953) was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan.

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Timeline of the British Army

This timeline covers the main wars, battles and engagements and related issues for the Scottish, English and British Army, from 1537 to the present.

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1896

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1896 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1896 in the United Kingdom.

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Redirects here:

Battle of Firka, Battle of Firket, Battle of ferkeh, Firket.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ferkeh

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