Contents

Introductory

• Introduction [November, 1932]
• Extract from Preface to First Edition [September 25, 1899]

Chapters

• I. The Rebellion of the Mahdi
• II. The Fate of the Envoy
• III. The Dervish Empire
• IV. The Years of Preparation
• V. The Beginning of the War
• VI. Firket
• VII. The Recovery of the Dongola Province
• VIII. The Desert Railway
• IX. Abu Hamed
• X. Berber
• XI. Reconnaissance
• XII.The Battle of the Atbara
• XIII. The Grand Advance
• XIV. The Operations of the First of September
• XV. The Battle of Omdurman
• XVI. The Fall of the City
• XVII. "The Fashoda Incident"
• XVIII. On the Blue Nile
• XIX. The End of the Khalifa

Appendices

• A. Composition of the Staff During The Rive War
• B. Text of the Soudan Agreement of the 19th of January, 1899, and of the Declaration of the 21st of March, 1899

Maps and Plans

• The Dervish Empire
• The Nile from Cairo to Wady Halfa
• Around Suakin
• The Advance to Akasha
• The Action at Firket
• The Capture of Dongola
• Rail and River
• The Nile from Merawi to Abu Hamed
• The Nile from Abu Hamed to Shabluka
• The Campaign on the Atbara
• The Battle of the Atbara
• The Grand Advance
• Operations of the First September
• Battle of Omdurman: The First Attack
• Battle of Omdurman: The Khalifa's Attack
• Battle of Omdurman: The Attack on MacDonald
• Battle of Omdurman: Noon
• Action Near Gedaref
• The Campaign on the Blue Nile
• Action Near Rosaires
• The Shirkela Reconnaissance
• The Soudan