1896 CE–1899 CE
Reconquest culminates at Omdurman and an unequal condominium
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · War & conquest · Law & imperial government
The Mahdist state had expelled Egyptian-British rule from much of Sudan. Kitchener’s army—largely Egyptian and Sudanese and equipped with machine guns—defeated it at Omdurman; the 1899 Anglo-Egyptian condominium left effective control in British hands
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