2-979-825 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Emir Mahmud Under Guard', 1898, (c1900). African leader captured after the Battle of Atbara, during the Second Sudan War. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Sudanese rebels, called Mahdists or Dervishes, on the banks of the River Atbara. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne]