Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 nChannel lieutenant bars

lieutenant bars

Complete with heavy duty all steel scabbard

with all buttons and gold "gimp" braiding intact

Year of Manufacture: circa 1861

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 nChannel lieutenant barsOriginal 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