1st Edition
Khartoum, 1884-1885 The Failed Mission of Charles Gordon and the Nile Relief Expedition
Introduction
Chapter 1
Gordon’s Successor and the Mahdi’s Revolution
Chapter 2
The Spread of the Mahdist Revolution
Chapter 3
The Hicks Expedition
Chapter 4
The Mission
Chapter 5
Meetings at Cairo
Chapter 6
Khartoum, November 1883 - February 1884
Chapter 7
Siege of Khartoum
Chapter 8
Abandon or Not
Chapter 9
Fall of Berber
Chapter 10
Desperation and Hope
Chapter 11
Help and Disaster
Chapter 12
The Mahdi’s and the Expedition’s advance to Khartoum
Chapter 13
Death and Destruction
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Alice Moore Harell is an independent researcher, after retiring from teaching at the Department of Middle Eastern studies, Haifa University and the Department of Islam and Middle East, The Hebrew University Jerusalem. She has published several articles and book reviews on the Sudan and the Horn of Africa. She is the author of Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877-1880 (2001) and Egypt’s African Empire: Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon & the Creation of Equatoria (2010).
