Colonel Mike Snook: 1 book
Beyond the Reach of Empire
Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn...
