Portal:Mahdist War
A collection of texts associated with the Mahdist War of 1881-1899
Documents from the War
[edit]- On the Death of General Gordon, 1885 by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
- The End of General Gordon, as it appeared in the 1918 Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
Analytical works
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- In the Mahdi's Grasp, 1899 by George Manville Fenn[2]
- The Four Feathers, 1902 by A. E. W. Mason
Verse
[edit]- "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling
Memoirs and eye-witness accounts
[edit]- Suakin, 1885: Being a Sketch of the Campaign of this Year, 1885 by Ernest Gambier Parry
- Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp, 1892 by Joseph Ohrwalder[3]