Historical place archive

Wadi Halfa in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Wadi Halfa in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1896–1896

Historical events in Wadi Halfa

1896

March 1896
Sudan Reconquest Expedition Opened
Horatio Herbert Kitchener · Sudan War

Begins the Anglo-Egyptian advance designed to recover the Sudan from Mahdist control.

Provenance

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