Chris, this video, like all the ones of yours I’ve seen, is terrific. Your narration is intelligent, and clearly the result of focused research. Marvelous content. Thanks for your work-it’s educational and entertaining!
Very good episode and thank you for it, I'm from Sudan and I really wanted to know more about Shaykan, you did a great job in explaining our shared history.... please continue. Shaykan was the catalyst that drew Britain eyes into the region, and it really shows the important of logistics and soliders spirits... Thank you for your work !
A conscripted army with very little training, poor logistics, defunct morale, andvHicks own arrogance sealed their fate. Hicks, although a good leader had been dealt a hand he couldn't win with. Thanks Chris, always a pleasure watching your videos.
Just fast forward to 2023 in the Russia vs Ukraine war. Prisoners, conscripts, discipline etc. It kinda sounds like history repeats itself in different countries, different eras but just as deadly
@patrickclune3600 : Almost similar to the Invasion of Iraq - a nation that had no connection to 9/11 - look at the end result. Endless attacks, crimes, instability and worse than that, Daesh Terrorist Network and rivals battling for supremacy and autonomy : an episode that cost too much in terms of money, international relations and most devastating, human life.
Excellent as usual Chris, I especially like the use of old photographs. I'm Irish and was in London at the weekend & really got a feel for British history, with statues and buildings, wondering what London must have looked like in Victorian times. Thankfully relations between Ireland and Britain have improved enormously with the white hot tip of history having cooled a lot which allows for greater objectivity in relations. I toured the Palace of Westminster and walked Horse Guards Parade and found it all very interesting. Look forward to seeing more of Britain. I would be keen to see some videos on British exploits in India & China in the 18th and 19th centuries. Particularly love the period around Gordon and saw Cleopatra's needle in London, donated by the Egyptians many years ago and sitting by the side of the Thames.
If I remember correctly Sir Winston Churchill fought the Mahdi at the Battle of Omdurman during the late 1800s. He had injured his right arm and was unable to draw his sword for the cavalry charge; he drew his Model C96 Mauser pistol instead and shot his way through the charge. Thank you very much Chris for bringing us this account of the British Army fighting the Mahdi and the first of the revolts.
Great post. In the Omdurman campaign the enemy was the Khalifa, the Mahdi's successor. Churchill took part in the (rather misjudged) charge of the 21st lancers. Just one story of many in his amazing life!
No matter what your opinion of England, we should all agree that the British Empire era of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, at its height in the 19th and very early 20th centuries, was the largest empire in history, and, for a century, was the foremost global power, should be admired by friend and foe alike.
My late father, who was born in 1923, told me he, when in St. Johns Ambulance in the 1930s in Bournemouth ( the following might actually have been when he was in the Boy Scouts) he used to push old servicemen who had been in The Sudan War - in their wheel chairs ( these may even have been bath chairs). Needless to say, he was always amused at Corporal Jones in 'Dad's Army' talking about 'The Mad Mahdi', General Gordon, 'The Battle Of Omdurman' etc.
Amazing video and channel. British history has been something I never got to study in detail, and this channel so far has been a wonderful entry into this field.
british history mostly was very simple: Hand over your country,gold and diamonds and work for free or Mr Martini-Henry will talk to you!.He is very convincing
Thanks for this. For the first time I understand the background and development of this war. I need to study the history of Sudan up to the present disaster.
You have earned another Subscriber great job. I had not heard of these battles being from the U.S. but have always been fascinated by British, Scottish, Welsh and Irish History as that is where 85 percent of my Heritage comes from.
Here I am at 3:48 am USA central time watching this video. I couldn't stop at one. Well done as usual!! I will watch the rest when I wake up. Always a treat to watch your videos!!
Fantastic work, sir, on all your videos, so glad I discovered your channel. I remember visiting the Crypt in St. Paul's Cathedral when I was in London in December 2003 and marveled at the memorial plaque for the British correspondents killed in the Sudan. Frank Vizetelly (who died with Hicks Pasha) was of particular interest to me as he had covered the American Civil War and I portrayed a Harper's Weekly artist at battle reenactments across the US for many years. I would love to learn more about the names listed on that plaque at St. Paul's if you are ever so inclined. Once again, good show!
He left off the fact that the suppression of slavery by the Egyptians which angered Moslems. The Mahdi supported slavery, which helped fuel the revolt.
00:10 A superior film 🎥 to Zulu. Underrated because of the unfortunate ending. Brilliant performance by Sir Laurence Olivier. So amazing acting, he was unrecognisable.
Chris, I'm a resent subscriber.....and I'm so impressed with your docos, I'm in Oz & look forward to pouring a glass of cognac and sitting back to learn all about history. thank you.
So glad to see you returning to the fascinating campaigns and stories in Sudan, sir. Also don't forget to cover the battle of Kirbekan and the stories of Major General William Earle later on!
I'm 71 and a fan of History now a fan of your channel, looking forward to learning more, just read Mutiny on the Bounty, and Tobruk, now reading Breaker Morant, thank you for your videos,. now for some Charlton Heston (Chinese Gordon)
I grew up with the impression that Gordan was protecting a piece of the British Empire. So its fascinating to learn how complex British interests and motivations in the region were.
Very nice video. I have been waiting for this one as you did a great job with the Anglo Egyptian war and then following up with Khartoum and Kitcheners revenge at Omdurman. However I have been dying for you to do one on the 2nd Anglo Afghan war. It’s a campaign that is hardly ever talked about, but in my opinion is one of GB’s best carried out and successful campaigns. Plus it features a great Victorian General of Frederick Bob Roberts.
2nd Anglo Afghan war is on my list. Please make sure you subscribe to my YT channel or sign up for my newsletter at my website so you don't miss it (www.thehistorychap.com)
Good video, explains a lot about this strange episode, Hicks really had a well-armed and supplied army, even if it with low morale, but why he didn't use bashibozuks for reconnaissance, to camp inside a wooded area where he does not command the view of surrounding terrain was also not smart...he could have chosen a plateau or something at least near the source of water, his cavalry should explore where the water lies and lead the army there. If the guides deliberately lead him into the trap it reminds a lot of Varus defeat in Teutoburg.
I use to watch in awe at that battle scene at the opening of the film Khartoum which I realise now was a little short of the truth.. and Gladstone later telling his commanders that were being sent to help rescue Gordon "don't do a Billy Hicks on me "
You prosecuted slavery at an eye watering cost to the relatives of those who were enslaved. Your money is no comparison to the lives lost and destroyed by the evil of slavery
@@christopherogundare6049 Britain absolutely did not start slavery... It's as old as humanity. Even the transatlantic slave trade was originally a Spanish/Portuguese idea.
Can anyone of you deniers claim that Britain was not a slave economy in the 17th to 19th centuries. I do not mean that they started slavery globally but abolition was by no means a British initiative on its own. Several countries and kingdoms had also abolished slavery in history. I speak in contradiction to the term Britain abolished slavery. They also started enslaving people and that must not be whitewashed. Britain was the biggest slave economy at some point in the 18th century. Jamaica, Barbados, East Coast of the US, Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago and British West Indies as well as India (see Mauritius and Seychelles today) all bear the imprimatur of British contribution to slavery. Do not knit pick. Face the fact that Bristol and Liverpool are slave cities.
Another excellent informative lesson, although confirming my increasing suspicion that the whole tone of the presentation from this channel betrays a true BBC style support for anyone who fought the British. Full of admiration for the enemy and thinly veiled contempt for anything done by Britain.
@@TheHistoryChap Much as I am of Scottish (and thus partly also British) ancestry, I am inclined to share at least part of 1davidpeter's misgivings about British colonialism and conquering for power and wealth in earlier centuries. This is not least enforced by the antipathy of your attacks on Denmark during the wars against France because you feared that we would join forces with the French and block your commercial interests in the Baltic. A scenario that Denmark at the time had no intention of as we didn't want to be involved in that war since we traded with both of you as the neutral country we were. But you did more or less achieve 2 results from those attacks on Denmark. A lot of civilian casualties in Copenhagen when you bombarded it, and a merciless hatred of Brits, leading to the very entente with France you had wanted to avoid. So despite your military victory in a secluded battle, you lost the overall purpose and our neutrality. Not the finest hour of the British kingdom despite your history books still claiming it as a victory all the way around, because Danes hated you with a vengeance for decades after that war. And you cannot deny the fact that even in those colonies you did have under your power, your reign was far from the most humane one. The way you treated Indians and Chinese and even British people in the American colonies can only be described as arrogant, degrading and harmful. Not that other colonisers were much better at it, but their behavior did not excuse your shameful politics and manners. Because shameful they were. Not only in hindsight today, but also at the time though the British government and it's administrations around the globe tried mightily to portray themselves as both humane and indiscriminant towards their subjects. And then I haven't even mentioned Africa as such yet, not forgetting the Southern part of that continent and the unwarranted waging of war against the Zulu's and other tribal nations that had no intention of doing anything towards you before you attacked them for wealth and land. Yes. I am pro British today. But I am not blind to their shameful past. Just as I am very well aware of our own Danish shameful colonising and slavetrading/holding back in the days. But let's be honest and face the harsch truth. Both Britain and Denmark have a lot to answer for in the eyes of history wether we want to or not.
Haven’t seen the video yet but just have to applaud any mention of this film, as someone studying history masters rn, i just love British historical epics, they’re fascinating and just super exciting to watch, love the book Queen Victoria’s Little Wars that covers a lot of wars like these. Haven’t seen many ppl discuss Khartoum tbh, also The Charge of the Light Brigade is a brilliant movie from that same era, also very underrated and surprisingly super accurate, did my bachelor’s thesis on the Crimean War
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Another great tale, well told. Where ya gone, Chris? I kind of miss seeing you articulate the story. It's like teacher has left the room and we're left with the TV, on that big old frame they used to wheel in. (You in the staff room, having a crafty Woodbine?) Heh! Heh!
Brilliant video lecture on Hicks Pasha Sir. Vicissitudes seem to plague the man's campaign. Poor advice, doubting one's experience etc..What a tale ... Despite all hopes the man was a true Victorian Soldier. Thank you Sir for stating the facts so eloquently. Bravo!
Good morning, Chris, I was a bit late getting to this one. I always may sure I have time to watch it undisturbed. Because I am always enthralled by your telling of the story. And this was the same, just brilliant, I can see the charging Marhdi' as I write this. I could also feel that oppressive heat and the lack of water. Thanks again for another brilliant telling, Cheers
Another good story Chris 👍. Any closer to getting the story about Piper Findlater? Had hoped I could show it to my father as Piper Findlater is a distant relative but sadly dad passed away at the end of March this year.
Nice narrative, I'm memorizing the article of this battle since I was in secondary school almost 17 years ago, despite Hicks pasha's army outnumbered the Mahadi's warriors and you can also observe the difference of the weapons, stick and swords against fire the Mahadi and his warriors win the battle due to the motives and reasons that you've mentioned in the video. .Thank you
I have a Kaskara sword, my theory ( imagination) that it was a souvenir from the Sudan war. On doing a little investigation, it was used by camel riders and used as a downward slicing weapon, the ' balance ' is terrible but I could imagine devastating wounds to the unfortunate recipient.
Could never see an entire Armys worth of armaments and equipment being left behind in a hostile country these days... 😏 And lets see what "their" current proxy debacle will reault in 🎉 Great video thanks.
"Here's to you Fuzzy Wuzzy, from your home in the Sudan, you're a poor benighted heathen, but a first class fighting man. We sloshed them with Martinis and it wasn't hardly fair but something something something, you broke a British square.."
Excellent video on a fascinating subject. I remember the film Khartoum very vividly. Along with Zulu it kickstarted my interest in the Victorian Colonial period.
@@TheHistoryChap I always rather found myself pitying Hicks. Even had he been the most brilliant commander in Victorian history, it would have made little to no difference with such a rabble of an army(some of the conscripts would go so far as to rub lime in their eyes and shoot off their trigger fingers to try and get out of service. The Bashi Bazouks would regularly operate more as thieves than soldiers), and the political pressures placed upon him to achieve a decisive victory soon all posed almost insurmountable tasks.
There are a few other fair to reasonably good films about Colonial 'little wars' such as The Four Feathers, 55 Days at Peking and Breaker Morant, but the period was only briefly fashionable for film makers. Now, with the left's historical revisionism, only 'white man bad' films are likely.
Sixty years later in 1948 the Egyptian army took on the new State of Israel and were similarly clobbered. Same in 1956, 1967 and 1973. Some things never change
Well done. A good script, very professionally presented and an interesting piece of history. I think the entire Victorian and Edwardian era would offer many other subjects that would be excellent for your treatment.
Chris, this video, like all the ones of yours I’ve seen, is terrific. Your narration is intelligent, and clearly the result of focused research. Marvelous content. Thanks for your work-it’s educational and entertaining!
Thanks for your kind words of support
Yep! Great stuff and I have only just become aware of Chris's videos. Subscribed! 🇬🇧
Truly
@@TheHistoryChap And thank you for not using AI, which always has terrible pronunciation.
Very good episode and thank you for it, I'm from Sudan and I really wanted to know more about Shaykan, you did a great job in explaining our shared history.... please continue.
Shaykan was the catalyst that drew Britain eyes into the region, and it really shows the important of logistics and soliders spirits...
Thank you for your work !
Thanks for watching.
I find it interesting how Britain got drawn in. it was like a series of dominos.
@@TheHistoryChapYep that great British ARROGANT pride which by 2023 has become a laughing stock to the rest of the world! 🤣
Such a well presented series about the British/Egyptian Sudanese war.
Makes one look forward to your next instalment.
Thank you.
If you want you could say mahdist war it’s a bit easier
A conscripted army with very little training, poor logistics, defunct morale, andvHicks own arrogance sealed their fate. Hicks, although a good leader had been dealt a hand he couldn't win with. Thanks Chris, always a pleasure watching your videos.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was only as I researched that I changed my opinion on Hicks (rather like you, I think he was dealt a poor hand).
But a good commander in the field would have turned back once water was not found. Continuing just invited the disaster that duly arrived.
@@andyf10 that is why i said Hicks was arrogant.
Just fast forward to 2023 in the Russia vs Ukraine war. Prisoners, conscripts, discipline etc. It kinda sounds like history repeats itself in different countries, different eras but just as deadly
@patrickclune3600 : Almost similar to the Invasion of Iraq - a nation that had no connection to 9/11 - look at the end result.
Endless attacks, crimes, instability and worse than that, Daesh Terrorist Network and rivals battling for supremacy and autonomy : an episode that cost too much in terms of money, international relations and most devastating, human life.
Excellent as usual Chris, I especially like the use of old photographs. I'm Irish and was in London at the weekend & really got a feel for British history, with statues and buildings, wondering what London must have looked like in Victorian times. Thankfully relations between Ireland and Britain have improved enormously with the white hot tip of history having cooled a lot which allows for greater objectivity in relations. I toured the Palace of Westminster and walked Horse Guards Parade and found it all very interesting. Look forward to seeing more of Britain.
I would be keen to see some videos on British exploits in India & China in the 18th and 19th centuries. Particularly love the period around Gordon and saw Cleopatra's needle in London, donated by the Egyptians many years ago and sitting by the side of the Thames.
Sounds like you have a very hectic tour around London. Thanks for your support and I’m glad that you are enjoying my videos.
Very good insight into how the British got involved in Sudan. Your series on the British involvement there are very good and well done.
Thanks you. Very kind.
If I remember correctly Sir Winston Churchill fought the Mahdi at the Battle of Omdurman during the late 1800s.
He had injured his right arm and was unable to draw his sword for the cavalry
charge; he drew his Model C96 Mauser pistol instead and shot his way through the charge. Thank you very much Chris for bringing us this account of the British Army fighting the Mahdi and the first of the revolts.
Great post. In the Omdurman campaign the enemy was the Khalifa, the Mahdi's successor. Churchill took part in the (rather misjudged) charge of the 21st lancers. Just one story of many in his amazing life!
Thank god for that C96!…different campaign, but very similar.
Correct except by the time of the Battle of Omdurman the Mahdi was long dead and it was his successor, the Khalifa, running Sudan.
Churchill fought agaisnt the Mahdi's successor the Khalifa Abdullahi. The Mahdi died shorlty after Gordon died.
Winston had dislocated his shoulder playing polo while stationed in India.
My Great Grandfather served in Egypt 1882-1885 and fought in the battle of Tofrek.
Then you might enjoy my video about the battle of Tofrek:
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No matter what your opinion of England, we should all agree that the British Empire era of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, at its height in the 19th and very early 20th centuries, was the largest empire in history, and, for a century, was the foremost global power, should be admired by friend and foe alike.
Admired?
My late father, who was born in 1923, told me he, when in St. Johns Ambulance in the 1930s in Bournemouth ( the following might actually have been when he was in the Boy Scouts) he used to push old servicemen who had been in The Sudan War - in their wheel chairs ( these may even have been bath chairs). Needless to say, he was always amused at Corporal Jones in 'Dad's Army' talking about 'The Mad Mahdi', General Gordon, 'The Battle Of Omdurman' etc.
fascinating story. Thanks for sharing. have you seen my video about Lance Corporal Jones in the Sudan?
ua-cam.com/video/WL_F3E973bU/v-deo.html
Amazing video and channel. British history has been something I never got to study in detail, and this channel so far has been a wonderful entry into this field.
Glad you are enjoying my videos.
british history mostly was very simple: Hand over your country,gold and diamonds and work for free or Mr Martini-Henry will talk to you!.He is very convincing
Having just rewatched Khartoum I was really looking for more background on Pasha Hicks, and, as ever, you did not disappoint!
Thanks for watching my video.
What an utterly superior documentary.
Thank you
Excellent presentation, filling in a lot of blanks about the history of the British in Egypt.
Thanks for watching.
Yet another excellent gem of forgotten British history
Glad you enjoyed it
You always add detail and nuance, even to episodes I am familiar with.
Another very good job.
Very kind of you. Thanks
Thanks for this. For the first time I understand the background and development of this war. I need to study the history of Sudan up to the present disaster.
I'm from Sudan and I'd be glad to help if you ever need any 😊
Thank you for watching
Every time I think he can’t make another excellent documentary…he proves me wrong!
Very kind of you.
Thanks for the fascinating historical story telling.
It was very interesting and entertaining.
Thank you for those kind words.
Merci pour cette brillante vidéo. L’Histoire est le meilleur roman jamais écrit !
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
As a Sudanese, this was A LOT more informative than what I was taught in School. Thank you for the entertaining and highly educational video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent once again Chris, many thanks.
My pleasure.
You have earned another Subscriber great job. I had not heard of these battles being from the U.S. but have always been fascinated by British, Scottish, Welsh and Irish History as that is where 85 percent of my Heritage comes from.
Thank you for your support
Another BRILLIANT presentation!!!!! Again many thanks.
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Here I am at 3:48 am USA central time watching this video. I couldn't stop at one. Well done as usual!! I will watch the rest when I wake up. Always a treat to watch your videos!!
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HAHAHAH Me too, only it's 1:59 a.m. just outside Chicago.
Great video mate. You have a new subscriber from Australia!!
Thanks for the sub. I'm just 300 short of hitting 100k!
Very good presentation Chris, I remember the line from the movie "don't you do a Billy Hicks on me!"
Oh I had forgotten that line...
Fantastic work, sir, on all your videos, so glad I discovered your channel. I remember visiting the Crypt in St. Paul's Cathedral when I was in London in December 2003 and marveled at the memorial plaque for the British correspondents killed in the Sudan. Frank Vizetelly (who died with Hicks Pasha) was of particular interest to me as he had covered the American Civil War and I portrayed a Harper's Weekly artist at battle reenactments across the US for many years. I would love to learn more about the names listed on that plaque at St. Paul's if you are ever so inclined. Once again, good show!
Thanks for sharing the US link to Frank V.
Absolutely fascinating as you never get to hear about the Sudan, unless you buy lots of books. Realy enjoying this peice of history.
Glad you enjoyed it. Check out the others on my Sudan / Egypt playlist here on YT.
My college library (1963-1967) had the memoirs of Sir Evelyn Baring, which I used in a report of 1870-1914 British expansion.
He left off the fact that the suppression of slavery by the Egyptians which angered Moslems. The Mahdi supported slavery, which helped fuel the revolt.
HE did indeed. However HE covered it in his video about Charles Gordon to which there was a link in the description
My great Grandfather was sent there 1884 for 2 years, Scot’s guards pipe major.
Thanks for sharing
00:10
A superior film 🎥 to Zulu.
Underrated because of the unfortunate ending.
Brilliant performance by Sir Laurence Olivier.
So amazing acting, he was unrecognisable.
Whilst it is not 100% accurate it is a lot more accurate than "Zulu".
Chris, I'm a resent subscriber.....and I'm so impressed with your docos, I'm in Oz & look forward to pouring a glass of cognac and sitting back to learn all about history.
thank you.
Sounds like a nice way to watch my videos! Thanks for your support
I missed the Sudan stories, thanks
Plenty to go at.
Fantastic lecture. Great video. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Thanks so much as always Chris
My pleasure
So glad to see you returning to the fascinating campaigns and stories in Sudan, sir. Also don't forget to cover the battle of Kirbekan and the stories of Major General William Earle later on!
I will add to the list.
It's absolutely fantastic..again! Thank you!!
My pleasure.
I'm 71 and a fan of History now a fan of your channel, looking forward to learning more, just read Mutiny on the Bounty, and Tobruk, now reading Breaker Morant, thank you for your videos,. now for some Charlton Heston (Chinese Gordon)
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Very well written narration!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent again. Every single one of your battles and features you have done I’ve been very interesting.. definitely keep up with the good work
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I grew up with the impression that Gordan was protecting a piece of the British Empire. So its fascinating to learn how complex British interests and motivations in the region were.
Thanks for your feedback
I've no idea how this popped up as a suggestion but THANK YOU! This was fantastic.
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Excellent video! You have a new subscriber from Birmingham. Birmingham, Alabama that is!
Thanks for your support
Very close to 100k subscribers Chris, well done! Was wondering if you will do a special video to mark the achievement?
What a great idea. if you have a subject in mind please send me an email via my website (www.thehistorychap.com)
Another fascinating and informative history lesson! Thank you!
My pleasure.
Excellent presentation, thank you
My pleasure. Thank you for watching
Your storytelling is very entertaining!
I wish you were my history teacher back in school!
Many thanks
Very nice video. I have been waiting for this one as you did a great job with the Anglo Egyptian war and then following up with Khartoum and Kitcheners revenge at Omdurman. However I have been dying for you to do one on the 2nd Anglo Afghan war. It’s a campaign that is hardly ever talked about, but in my opinion is one of GB’s best carried out and successful campaigns. Plus it features a great Victorian General of Frederick Bob Roberts.
2nd Anglo Afghan war is on my list. Please make sure you subscribe to my YT channel or sign up for my newsletter at my website so you don't miss it (www.thehistorychap.com)
Brilliant and Fascinating!!!!
Thank you.
I *love* your story telling style. Just wonderful
Very kind of you. Thanks.
Great documentary 👏 Thank you sir.
My pleasure. Thank you for watching
Good video, explains a lot about this strange episode, Hicks really had a well-armed and supplied army, even if it with low morale, but why he didn't use bashibozuks for reconnaissance, to camp inside a wooded area where he does not command the view of surrounding terrain was also not smart...he could have chosen a plateau or something at least near the source of water, his cavalry should explore where the water lies and lead the army there. If the guides deliberately lead him into the trap it reminds a lot of Varus defeat in Teutoburg.
Once again well told and riveting to listen too👌❤️
Thank you.
Thank you,..I've always wanted a good explaination for this.
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing how Mr Heston looks like General Gordon.
Yes it is.
As a historian for 58 years, u made a subscriber outta me.
Thanks for your support.
I use to watch in awe at that battle scene at the opening of the film Khartoum which I realise now was a little short of the truth.. and Gladstone later telling his commanders that were being sent to help rescue Gordon "don't do a Billy Hicks on me "
Thanks for contributing
I very much enjoyed your video. Thanks.
My pleasure. Thank you for watching
Another great presentation. Keep them coming 👍
Will do. Thanks for watching
Thanks Chris! Now the film makes sense! The cinematographer in me begs for some obscure technicolor wide screen observation, but I've nothing to add!
Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Another excellent presentation on a little understood war!
Thanks for watching.
We abolished slavery at a eye watering cost to the British population. Got to give credit to the British.
You prosecuted slavery at an eye watering cost to the relatives of those who were enslaved. Your money is no comparison to the lives lost and destroyed by the evil of slavery
@@christopherogundare6049not 1 Brit alive today has ever enslaved anyone or had anything to do with any slavery
@@christopherogundare6049 Britain absolutely did not start slavery... It's as old as humanity. Even the transatlantic slave trade was originally a Spanish/Portuguese idea.
@@christopherogundare6049 erm…no, please read history books, not silly social media posts.
Can anyone of you deniers claim that Britain was not a slave economy in the 17th to 19th centuries. I do not mean that they started slavery globally but abolition was by no means a British initiative on its own. Several countries and kingdoms had also abolished slavery in history. I speak in contradiction to the term Britain abolished slavery. They also started enslaving people and that must not be whitewashed. Britain was the biggest slave economy at some point in the 18th century. Jamaica, Barbados, East Coast of the US, Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago and British West Indies as well as India (see Mauritius and Seychelles today) all bear the imprimatur of British contribution to slavery. Do not knit pick. Face the fact that Bristol and Liverpool are slave cities.
I like your work. Thank you.
Excellent and truly interesting video. Miss you though standing in front of your bookcases and relating parts of the story. Thanks for posting.
Oh, the library of books will make another appearance in the future.
Wonderful stuff - well researched and truly inspiring. Once again, well done.
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Excellent a new the history chap video
Hope you enjoy it.
Another excellent informative lesson, although confirming my increasing suspicion that the whole tone of the presentation from this channel betrays a true BBC style support for anyone who fought the British. Full of admiration for the enemy and thinly veiled contempt for anything done by Britain.
You are welcome to your opinion.
@@TheHistoryChap Much as I am of Scottish (and thus partly also British) ancestry, I am inclined to share at least part of 1davidpeter's misgivings about British colonialism and conquering for power and wealth in earlier centuries. This is not least enforced by the antipathy of your attacks on Denmark during the wars against France because you feared that we would join forces with the French and block your commercial interests in the Baltic. A scenario that Denmark at the time had no intention of as we didn't want to be involved in that war since we traded with both of you as the neutral country we were. But you did more or less achieve 2 results from those attacks on Denmark. A lot of civilian casualties in Copenhagen when you bombarded it, and a merciless hatred of Brits, leading to the very entente with France you had wanted to avoid. So despite your military victory in a secluded battle, you lost the overall purpose and our neutrality. Not the finest hour of the British kingdom despite your history books still claiming it as a victory all the way around, because Danes hated you with a vengeance for decades after that war.
And you cannot deny the fact that even in those colonies you did have under your power, your reign was far from the most humane one. The way you treated Indians and Chinese and even British people in the American colonies can only be described as arrogant, degrading and harmful. Not that other colonisers were much better at it, but their behavior did not excuse your shameful politics and manners. Because shameful they were. Not only in hindsight today, but also at the time though the British government and it's administrations around the globe tried mightily to portray themselves as both humane and indiscriminant towards their subjects. And then I haven't even mentioned Africa as such yet, not forgetting the Southern part of that continent and the unwarranted waging of war against the Zulu's and other tribal nations that had no intention of doing anything towards you before you attacked them for wealth and land.
Yes. I am pro British today. But I am not blind to their shameful past. Just as I am very well aware of our own Danish shameful colonising and slavetrading/holding back in the days. But let's be honest and face the harsch truth. Both Britain and Denmark have a lot to answer for in the eyes of history wether we want to or not.
Haven’t seen the video yet but just have to applaud any mention of this film, as someone studying history masters rn, i just love British historical epics, they’re fascinating and just super exciting to watch, love the book Queen Victoria’s Little Wars that covers a lot of wars like these. Haven’t seen many ppl discuss Khartoum tbh, also The Charge of the Light Brigade is a brilliant movie from that same era, also very underrated and surprisingly super accurate, did my bachelor’s thesis on the Crimean War
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Yes, another lesser known story, recounted very well indeed. Thank you.
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another great video good job and hard work is greatly appreciated..
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well represented and accurate. another great video from a historian who tells the truth. well done.
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Your stuff is so good, thank you.
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Another great tale, well told. Where ya gone, Chris? I kind of miss seeing you articulate the story. It's like teacher has left the room and we're left with
the TV, on that big old frame they used to wheel in. (You in the staff room, having a crafty Woodbine?) Heh! Heh!
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Brilliant video lecture on Hicks Pasha Sir. Vicissitudes seem to plague the man's campaign. Poor advice, doubting one's experience etc..What a tale ... Despite all hopes the man was a true Victorian Soldier. Thank you Sir for stating the facts so eloquently. Bravo!
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Good morning, Chris, I was a bit late getting to this one. I always may sure I have time to watch it undisturbed. Because I am always enthralled by your telling of the story. And this was the same, just brilliant, I can see the charging Marhdi' as I write this. I could also feel that oppressive heat and the lack of water. Thanks again for another brilliant telling, Cheers
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I love history.
You, Chris, are doing a damn well job in your presentations!
Kudos to you!
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Another good story Chris 👍. Any closer to getting the story about Piper Findlater? Had hoped I could show it to my father as Piper Findlater is a distant relative but sadly dad passed away at the end of March this year.
No closer. My research list will keep me going for years!
Well done, I enjoyed!
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the 1966 film “Khartoum” staring Charlton Heston is an excellent highly underrated film
One of my favourites. Have you seen my video about? Gordon of Khartoum?
Lessons learnt and then forgotten.
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Nice narrative, I'm memorizing the article of this battle since I was in secondary school almost 17 years ago, despite Hicks pasha's army outnumbered the Mahadi's warriors and you can also observe the difference of the weapons, stick and swords against fire the Mahadi and his warriors win the battle due to the motives and reasons that you've mentioned in the video.
.Thank you
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You're welcome but your videos are deserve to watch and give time
I have a Kaskara sword, my theory ( imagination) that it was a souvenir from the Sudan war. On doing a little investigation, it was used by camel riders and used as a downward slicing weapon, the ' balance ' is terrible but I could imagine devastating wounds to the unfortunate recipient.
The prince of Darfur (Ali Dinar) who killed by the British forces has been owning that kind of sword 1898-1916
exactly the kind of book I love to read. thank you for the introduction.
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Thanks and respect to the memory of Hicks Pasha
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We only know the propaganda. Hicks was probably a drunken as..h....e.
Could never see an entire Armys worth of armaments and equipment being left behind in a hostile country these days... 😏 And lets see what "their" current proxy debacle will reault in 🎉 Great video thanks.
Funny how history has a knack of repeating itself.
Are you talking about the recent US debacle in Afghanistan, by chance?
@@PaIaeoCIive1648And the U.S. NATO support of their proxy Ukraine against Russia.
"Here's to you Fuzzy Wuzzy, from your home in the Sudan, you're a poor benighted heathen, but a first class fighting man.
We sloshed them with Martinis and it wasn't hardly fair but something something something, you broke a British square.."
Thanks for sharing a bit of Kipling.
'big, black, boundin' beggar
Great video sir, aplause, keep 'em coming.
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Oh this ought to be a good one! Time to brew up lol. Thanks as ever.
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Thanks again for a fantastic history lesson really interesting and educational, stay well.
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i dont know why but my dog really loved this movie.
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Excellent video on a fascinating subject. I remember the film Khartoum very vividly. Along with Zulu it kickstarted my interest in the Victorian Colonial period.
Me too. Two great films.
@@TheHistoryChap I always rather found myself pitying Hicks. Even had he been the most brilliant commander in Victorian history, it would have made little to no difference with such a rabble of an army(some of the conscripts would go so far as to rub lime in their eyes and shoot off their trigger fingers to try and get out of service. The Bashi Bazouks would regularly operate more as thieves than soldiers), and the political pressures placed upon him to achieve a decisive victory soon all posed almost insurmountable tasks.
There are a few other fair to reasonably good films about Colonial 'little wars' such as The Four Feathers, 55 Days at Peking and Breaker Morant, but the period was only briefly fashionable for film makers. Now, with the left's historical revisionism, only 'white man bad' films are likely.
yeah the good old times when you could shoot a bunch of coloured "non british "(:-) and call yourself a hero !!
beautifully narrated. I am well encouraged to watch the rest of this interesting history telling
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Another awesome episode!👍😀👍 I"ll be rewatching Khartoum(1965) again tonight.
The more I watch the film, the more I enjoy it.
@@TheHistoryChap I love it. Even more than Lawrence of Arabia - believe it or not!
Sixty years later in 1948 the Egyptian army took on the new State of Israel and were similarly clobbered. Same in 1956, 1967 and 1973. Some things never change
Interesting parallel
Again very well done
Great story
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I LOVE THIS VID SM!!!! ,luv you Chris :D
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@@TheHistoryChap Np!!!!! :)
'' Billy Hicks had his work out from Go '' A brilliant example of a British Understatement.
meant 'work cut out ''
I had to throw it in there! :)
Well done. A good script, very professionally presented and an interesting piece of history. I think the entire Victorian and Edwardian era would offer many other subjects that would be excellent for your treatment.
Seem to have fallen into this period and lots of people enjoy it.
@@TheHistoryChap Barbara Tuchmann, Proud Tower is a superb book.
Also Tournament of Shadows by Karl Meyer. You've almost certainly read them.
for the begin you may choose the" Amritsar massacre (:-)
"It was perhaps the worst army that has ever marched to war."
Churchill about Hicks' army.
Thanks for sharing.