⚔️📍 Khartoum, Sudan1885
Fall of Khartoum — General Gordon Killed
Mahdist forces under Muhammad Ahmad stormed Khartoum and killed the British commander General Charles Gordon two days before a relief force arrived. Gordon had held the city for ten months against a vastly superior besieging army.
Gordon's death made him a Victorian martyr, humiliated the Gladstone government, and fueled British determination to reconquer Sudan — accomplished at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.
Outcome
Mahdist victory — Gordon killed, Khartoum falls