Mahdist War
June 29, 1881 – November 24, 1899 · Omdurman
Result Allied victory
War between the Mahdist movement in Sudan and Egypt and Britain; the Mahdists took Khartoum in 1885 and ruled Sudan until Kitchener's army destroyed their state in 1896-99.
Mahdist State
Egypt and Britain
Other
Battles and events 18
- Battle of Shaykan November 3–5, 1883
- Nile Expedition 1884 – 1885 · Mahdist victory
- First and second battles of El Teb February 4–29, 1884 · 4 February: Mahdist victory
- Siege of Khartoum March 13, 1884 – January 26, 1885 · Mahdist victory
- Battle of Tamai March 13, 1884 · British victory
- Battle of Abu Klea January 17, 1885 · British victory
- Battle of Tofrek March 22, 1885 · British victory
- Battle of Suakin December 20, 1888 · Anglo-Egyptian victory
- Battle of Gallabat March 9–10, 1889 · Mahdist victory
- Battle of Toski August 3, 1889 · Egyptian/British Victory
- First Battle of Agordat June 27, 1890 · Italian victory
- Battle of Serobeti June 26, 1892 · Italian victory
- Second Battle of Agordat December 21, 1893 · Italian victory
- Battle of Kassala July 17, 1894 · Colonial Italian victory
- Battle of Ferkeh June 7, 1896 · British–Egyptian victory
- Battle of Atbara April 8, 1898 · Anglo-Egyptian victory
- Battle of Omdurman September 2, 1898 · British–Egyptian victory
- Battle of Umm Diwaykarat November 24, 1899 · Anglo-Egyptian victory
Also involved 20
- Winston Churchill
- Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
- Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet
- John French
- Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
- David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
- Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
- Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
- Andrew Wauchope
- George White
- Frederick Stopford
- Ian Hamilton
- Redvers Buller
- Claude Maxwell MacDonald
- Arthur Reginald Hoskins
- Christopher Teesdale
- Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
- Robert Kekewich