…camel train, commanded by General William Hicks, was butchered almost to a man. El Obeid, the present-day Al-Ubayyiḍ, provincial capital of Kordofan, and Bāra, a chief town of that province, fell after being besieged by al-Mahdī. He now committed his first acts as the head of an armed theocracy on…
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