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2 giorni fa · Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army.
- Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, Gordon of Khartoum
- Major-General
- 1852–1885
23 apr 2024 · Khartoum is a city and the executive capital of Sudan, just south of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers. It has bridge connections with its sister towns, Khartoum North and Omdurman, with which it forms Sudan’s largest conurbation. Learn more about Khartoum here.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 giorni fa · Sudan, country located in northeastern Africa at the southern edge of the Sahara. Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is located roughly in the center of the country, at the junction of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers. Sudan is one of the largest countries in Africa.
1 giorno fa · South Sudan (/ s uː ˈ d ɑː n,-ˈ d æ n /), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in eastern Central Africa.It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Kenya, and includes the vast swamp region of the Sudd, formed by the White Nile and known locally as the Bahr al Jabal, meaning "Mountain Sea".
4 giorni fa · Eden convened a conference in Khartoum at the end of October 1940 with Selassie, South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts (an advisor to Churchill), Wavell, Lieutenant-General William Platt and Lieutenant-General Alan Cunningham. A plan to attack Ethiopia, including support for Ethiopian irregular forces, was agreed.
- Allied victory
- 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941, (Guerrilla war until 8 September 1943)
6 giorni fa · The war has reordered Africa’s third-largest nation with breathtaking speed. It has gutted the capital, Khartoum, once a major center of commerce and culture on the Nile. Deserted neighborhoods...
25 apr 2024 · The early years of independence. The Sudanese government that came to power in 1956 insisted on an Arab and Islamic identity. The state was based on the principles of Mahdism, an Islamic Sufi ...
