Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Crocodile Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Military Books & Documents Reads the famous Alfred Lord

Reads the famous Alfred Lord Tennyson poem

but unfortunately only about half of the chin strap

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by Martin Bowman

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Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Crocodile Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Military Books & Documents Reads the famous Alfred LordOriginal 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