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River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.

The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, its annual flood has made habitable a slender strip, though hundreds of miles of deserts, between its tributaries and its delta. Through this desolate region, man and beast struggled to supply the bare essentials of life. Though this same region, the expedition had to find and defeat an enemy several times larger than itself.

The young Churchill was hot to gain war experience to aid his career, and so he wangled a transfer to the 21st Lancers and participated in the last successful cavalry charge the world ever saw, in the climactic battle of Omdurman. He also had a position as war correspondent for the Morning Post, and on his return to England he used his notes to compose this book.

Year of Publication: 1902Genres: War & Military , History , Memoirs

Running Time: 14 hours 13 minutes 59 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	The Rebellion of the Mahdi, Part 1 Mark F. Smith	42:19
2	The Rebellion of the Mahdi, Part 2 Mark F. Smith	42:49
3	The Fate of the Envoy, Part 1 Mark F. Smith	40:26
4	The Fate of the Envoy, Part 2 Mark F. Smith	42:02
5	The Dervish Empire Mark F. Smith	47:57
6	The Years of Preparation Mark F. Smith	42:38
7	The Beginning of the War Mark F. Smith	45:57
8	Firket Mark F. Smith	21:16
9	The Recovery of the Dongola Province Mark F. Smith	53:46
10	The Desert Railway Mark F. Smith	49:55
11	Abu Hamed Mark F. Smith	41:55
12	Berber Mark F. Smith	36:45
13	Reconaissance Mark F. Smith	30:39
14	The Battle of the Atbara Mark F. Smith	29:18
15	The Grand Advance Mark F. Smith	29:20
16	The Operations of the First of September Mark F. Smith	27:35
17	The Battle of Omdurman, Part 1 Mark F. Smith	31:58
18	The Battle of Omdurman, Part 2 Mark F. Smith	45:03
19	The Fall of the City Mark F. Smith	21:47
20	The Fashoda Incident Mark F. Smith	33:51
21	On the Blue Nile Mark F. Smith	44:23
22	The End of the Khalifa Mark F. Smith	42:20
23	Appendix Mark F. Smith	10:00