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Description: | A fascinating piece of ephemera, which alludes to events in Sudan in the 1880s and 1890s. The Siege of Khartoum took place in 1884 and result in the death of General Gordon. The Battle of Omdurman took place on September 2, 1898, between 23,000 British and Egyptian troops under Sir Herbert Kitchener, and 50,000 Dervishes under the Khalifa. The British and Egyptian losses were 500 killed and wounded. The Dervishes lost about 15,000. The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda Crisis, was the climatic event caused by years of territorial disputes in Africa, between France and Great Britain. After months of manoeuvring over control the French withdrew from the Sudanese fortress on November 4, 1898. By 1900, despite fierce indigenous opposition and European rivallry, Britain was in control of the Sudan. This leaflet celebrates this success. The red coated soldiers and their native subordinates are shown not with bayonets drawn, but engaged in busy and constructive activity. The dark reality of war is avoided. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | social history trade advertising landscape people war | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1900-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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