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Expert medievalist David Nicolle draws on contemporary sources to reconstruct this turning-point battle

Evelyn Marthain

and Refresh Phase - the tension builds as players race to achieve their objectives

mobile infantry swept over opposition

Khartoum 1885 Decks X-Men 0-12 and material fromEarly in 1881 unrest in the Sudan began to crystallise around Mohammed Ibn Ahmed el Sayyid Abdullah. Proclaiming himself the long expected Madhi, the Guided One of the Prophet, he preached that the Sudan was to be purged of its Egyptian oppressors. Drawn in by the Egyptian failure to deal with the situation, the British sent General Gordon to organise an evacuation. On reaching Khartoum however, General Gordon believed, incorrectly, that the Madhi