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Dervish: The Rise and Fall of an African Empire (Wordsworth Military Library)
Dervish The Rise and Fall of an African Empire - Wordsworth Military Library Author:Philip Warner Gordon at Khartoum, the Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman and other famous episodes of British military history took place against the backdrop of the Mahdist state in the Sudan. For nearly 20 years the Dervishes (or Ansar as they preferred to be called) and their visionary Muslim empire fought the European powers to a standstill.