Word: mahdists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet. The south was unimpressed. The offers fell far short of the provincial autonomy demanded by even moderate southern leaders. Still worse, the power behind the new regime was a bright young man named Sadik el Mahdi-scion of the Sudan's richest family and boss of the Mahdist sect, which to the south is the very symbol of centuries of Arab rule. Instead of listening to reason, the blacks renewed the attack...
Into Obscurity. When the war ended, the Special Artists themselves slipped into an obscurity that was hastened by the development of the camera as the most accurate witness of passing events. Frank Vizetelly returned to England, pursued his craft on a variety of assignments; in 1883, covering the Mahdist insurrection in the Sudan, he vanished forever during the massacre at Kashgil. Alfred Waud stayed on at Harper's, a minor commercial artist. Leslie's Edwin Forbes established a studio in Brooklyn and painted landscapes and cattle...
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