Gerald Graham
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Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Graham, was a senior British Army commander in the late 19th century and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the en
An illustration depicting Graham, from The Victoria Cross in The Crimea, 1881.
Interior of the Taku north fort immediately after its capture
Cavalry charge at the Battle of Kassassin
British forces scaling the Egyptian works at the battle of Tel El Kebir
Osman Digna
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Osman Digna was a follower of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi, in Sudan, who became his best known military commander during the Mahdist War. He was claimed to be a descendant from the Abbas
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…which at that time was under Egyptian control. The Red Sea port of Suakin was threatened by Mahdist tribes, particularly the Hadendowa, who’s leader Osman Digna routed an Egyptian relief force under Valentine Baker at el-Teb on February 4, 1884. The British arranged for Egyptian withdrawal from the Sudan…
Osman Digna in old age
Emir Mahmoud, a Mahdist leader, as prisoner after the Battle of Atbara, photograph by Francis Gregson, 1898