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IXth Sudanese Battalion
Source: Mark A. Reid, The Army of the Khedive (London: Orders & Medals Research Society, 2013), 273.
Music: Bobby Cole, "Fight to the Death," YouTube video, 4:25, posted June 15, 2018.

The British infantry square.
Source: Robert Wilkinson-Latham, The Sudan Campaigns 1881–98, Men-at-Arms Series 59 (London: Osprey Publishing, 1976), 9.
Music: Elision, "Aftermath," YouTube video, 2:15, posted July 14, 2022.

This is a government school in Sennar, Sudan (1908).
Source: M. W. Daly and L. E. Forbes, The Sudan: Photographs from the Sudan Archive, Durham University Library (Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 1994), 50.
Music: Blast Off Music, "Gravity Waves," YouTube video, 1:50, posted August 9, 2024.

Source: M. W. Daly and L. E. Forbes, The Sudan: Photographs from the Sudan Archive, Durham University Library (Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 1994), 77.
Music: Blast Off Music, "Gravity Waves," YouTube video, 1:50, posted August 9, 2024.

This beautiful island city is Suakin, on the Sudanese Red Sea coast. Photographed here in 1909.
Once a major port connecting Africa, Arabia, and the Indian Ocean world.

Music: MelodiX, "The Between," YouTube video, 1:28, posted December 26, 2023.

The famous Al-Zubayr Pasha. Britain feared him. His name carried weight throughout the Sudan.
Source: M. W. Daly and L. E. Forbes, The Sudan: Photographs from the Sudan Archive, Durham University Library (Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 1994), 52.

Music: Aakash Gandhi, "Eyes of Glory," YouTube video, 2:31, posted April 21, 2021.

The famous Black Flag of the Mahdist Armies, captured at the Battle of Omdurman 1898.

Source: National Army Museum (London, UK), "Standard of the Khalifa's Black Flag Division captured at Omdurman, 2 September 1898," Accession Number 1982-10-118-1.

Source: National Army Museum (London, UK), "Standard of the Khalifa's Black Flag Division captured at Omdurman, 2 September 1898," Accession Number 1982-10-118-1.
Music: Aakash Gandhi, "Eyes of Glory," YouTube video, 2:31, posted April 21, 2021.

Source: M. W. Daly and L. E. Forbes, The Sudan: Photographs from the Sudan Archive, Durham University Library (Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 1994), 166.

The Winning Jump (Sudan, 1932)

A Sudanese veteran of the Mahdist Wars. His medals and clasps indicate a distinguished military career.

Source: Mark A. Reid, The Army of the Khedive (London: Orders & Medals Research Society, 2013), 267.