Portal:Mahdist War
A collection of texts associated with the Mahdist War of 1881-1899
![A drawing of General Gordon wrestling with a Sudanese soldier as another stands behind him with a knife held high](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Death_of_General_Gordon_at_Khartoum%2C_by_J.L.G._Ferris.jpg/220px-Death_of_General_Gordon_at_Khartoum%2C_by_J.L.G._Ferris.jpg)
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
editFiction
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