1. The archslaver Zubair Rahmat in his pasha’s uniform;
2. Osman Digna, the Mahdi’s opportunist ally in the Red Sea hills;
a Hadendowa warrior, or “Fuzzy-Wuzzy.”
The ministers who sent Gordon to the Sudan for the last time:
1. Lord Granville and
2. Lord Hartington.
“Too Late!”: Britannia bereft on the cover of Punch magazine.
Scramblers for Africa:
1. Leopold II, King of the Belgians;
2. the sporting Lord Rosebery, lampooned in Punch as “A Doubtful Stayer.”
“From the Atlantic to the Red Sea”:
2. Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand, dreaming of Fashoda.
The modern traveler: British officers, Egyptian soldiers, and Sudanese laborers take a break from laying the Sudan Military Railway, 1897.
“A very Good Friday”: Kitchener’s intelligence officer Colonel Reginald Wingate smokes a cheroot as he interrogates the wounded Mahdist emir Mahmoud Ahmed after the Battle of the Atbara, April 8, 1897.
“Of course, there would be a charge”: Second Lieutenant Winston Spencer Churchill in the uniform of the Fourth Hussars, 1895.
“Old Mac”: Major General Hector MacDonald, whose Egyptian and Sudanese troops broke the khalifa’s charge at Omdurman and saved Kitchener’s reputation.
“Whatever happens, We have got / The Maxim gun, and they have not”: The bodies of Khalifa Abdullahi (center left) and his commanders at Umm Debeikerat in Kordofan, November 24, 1899.