British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan A Selected Bibliography

The British Army's campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan from 1882 to 1899 were among the most dramatic and hard-fought in British military history. In 1882, the British sent an expeditionary force to Egypt to quell the Arabi Revolt and secure British control of the Suez Canal, its lifeline to India. Enigmatic British Major General Charles G. Gordon was sent to the Sudan in 1884 to study the possibility of evacuating Egyptian garrisons threatened by Muslim fanatics, the dervishes, in the Sudan. Although the dervishes defeated the British forces on a number of occasions, the British eventually learned to combat the insurrection and ultimately, largely through superior technology and firepower, vanquished the insurgents in 1898.

Harold E. Raugh, Jr., serves as the command historian, U.S. Army V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany.