Gordon Relief Expedition (1884-1885)
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Name (Latin)
Gordon Relief Expedition (1884-1885)
Other forms of name
Gordon's Succession Expedition (1884-1885)
Nile Expedition (1884-1885)
Khartoum Relief Expedition (1884-1885)
Associated country
Egypt
Great Britain
Sudan
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- Native American Veteran History website, viewed March 3, 2022(the Nile Expedition, sometimes referred to as Gordon's Succession Expedition (1884-85); the expedition reached Khartoum on January 24, 1885; the Wolseley Expeditionary Force had arrived 56 hours too late; a general retreat was ordered on February 24)
- The Canadian Encyclopedia (online), Maclaren, Roy. Nile Expedition, posted February 7, 2006, viewed March 3, 2022(in March 1884 Britain organized a rescue expedition under Garnet Wolseley to rescue General Charles Gordon, who was trapped in Khartoum by Mahdist forces; 386 "voyageurs" were recruited [from Canada] to help with getting the expedition's boats up the Nile; but the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed two days before the expedition sighted Khartoum on January 26, 1885)
- The Victorian Web (website), The Illustrated London News, 3 January 1885, The Nile Expedition, viewed March 3, 2022:page 13 (map caption: The Nile Expedition: Lord Wolseley's intended route across the desert from Korti to Shendy)
- Wikipedia, March 3, 2022(Nile Expedition; sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884-85); after their victory at the Battle of Khartoum, the Mahdists resisted further British efforts; the Panjdeh incident of 29 March 1885 in south-central Asia gave the British government an excuse to withdraw the Wolseley force to Egypt and then home; Sudan was reconquered by the British in a campaign 1895-1898 led by Lord Kitchener)