Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Fighting Daggers with Leather Scabbards - Circa 1885 Japanese Documents and Books Bronze Medal

Bronze Medal

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The top cover bears serial number 7546

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Fighting Daggers with Leather Scabbards - Circa 1885 Japanese Documents and Books Bronze MedalOriginal items. One Set of Two Available. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the