"Mahdist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only 5,813 miles of railroad in Africa. About 15,000 miles are now in operation, and the end of this decade is certain to see 25,000 miles of railroads. Trains are running from Cairo to Khartum, the seat of the Mahdist tyranny, in the centre of a vast region which, until recently, had been closed for many years to all ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord
... country, there flourished a tyranny which for cruelty, blood-thirstiness, unintelligence, and wanton destructiveness surpassed anything which a civilized people can even imagine. The keystones of the Mahdist party were religious intolerance and slavery, with murder and the most abominable cruelty as the ...
— African and European Addresses • Theodore Roosevelt
... attacks of 4,000 Zulus at Rorke's Drift. In the operations after the fall of Khartoum a desert column under Major-General Sir J. McNeill was surprised in dense bush while constructing a zeriba at Tofrik (March 22, 1885), but after twenty minutes' fierce fighting the Mahdist Arabs were driven off with more than 1,000 killed. In the operations in Upper Egypt against the invading Mahdists a vigorous strategical and tactical offensive led to the Battle of Toski (August 3, 1889) and resulted in the defeat and complete destruction ...
— Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers • Anonymous |
