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Africa During the Scramble: The Mahdi
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'Fight and be Right' of course makes much hay out of the POD of Gordon being relieved in time and then going to the Congo to work for Leopold. It is one of those British Imperial crisis that had huge political implications.
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The more you look into it, the more Sudan really does seem like a place that almost seems to have been subjected to a hamfisted effort by OTL's author to justify why he's having the 'famously unconquerable' nation remain under outside rule until the 50s.
'But what about Funj? Oh massive civil war earlier than the historic crisis that leaves the capital in ruins, the nation divided and the government willing to just give up rather than fight. What about Sultan Ahmad? Manages a temporary success then dies. What about the lack of British interest? Oh Gordon gets redirected at the last moment purely to get killed.' and so on.
There's probably a world where Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia are three rival independent native Kingdoms vying for supremacy between eachother and being played off by the Europeans during the early 20th Century.
'But what about Funj? Oh massive civil war earlier than the historic crisis that leaves the capital in ruins, the nation divided and the government willing to just give up rather than fight. What about Sultan Ahmad? Manages a temporary success then dies. What about the lack of British interest? Oh Gordon gets redirected at the last moment purely to get killed.' and so on.
There's probably a world where Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia are three rival independent native Kingdoms vying for supremacy between eachother and being played off by the Europeans during the early 20th Century.
I do get a kick out of the bit where Gladstone says people have the right to be free from the bad kind of empire while he's grinding the imperial boot into Egypt.
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I do get a kick out of the bit where Gladstone says people have the right to be free from the bad kind of empire while he's grinding the imperial boot into Egypt.
By bad he of course meant Islamic. Gladstone very much did not have a problem with antisemitism.