Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 British Artwork & Posters The antiaircraft setup allows the

The antiaircraft setup allows the gun to be displayed above ground-mount machine guns in a display

participating in the battle for Carentan

It is said to have belonged to :- STAFF CAPTAIN ROBERT W

Enveloped in clouds of dust

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 British Artwork & Posters The antiaircraft setup allows theOriginal items: One Set of Two Only. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the