Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 EXCLUDE_CHECKOUT_RESTRICTION • European

• European

When mixed

on 8 October 1944

the remainder entering combat 10 June

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 EXCLUDE_CHECKOUT_RESTRICTION • EuropeanOriginal item. Only One Available. 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 Sudan