Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Japanese Ordnance As the winter passed the

As the winter passed the division was brought up to strength and fully equipped for forward deployment into a war zone

Plus 50 rounds of

30 cartridges in it and the other containing a disintegrating metal belt with cal

” This fine rifle is in

and the scabbard fittings are non-magnetic

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Japanese Ordnance As the winter passed theOriginal item. Only One Available. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the Sudan