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Old 6th January 2019, 03:48 PM   #36
colin henshaw
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Here is a further piece of detail regarding "souvenirs" from the Sudanese Mahdist period - I have been reading Major E A de Cosson's account of his participation in the Suakin Expedition of 1885 ("Days and Nights of Service with Sir Gerald Graham's Field Force at Suakin" published London 1886), and in it he mentions the topic of souvenirs from Eastern Sudan. I attach the relevant extracts.

It should be noted these events took place 13 years before the Battle of Omdurman...
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