Original Victorian Sudanese Mahdi Wars African Dervish Rhinoceros Hide Shield - circa 1890 Category_Gahendra Martini Rifles & Parts On this version of the

On this version of the Pickelhaube

It is nicely engraved as follows:

allowing the interior to be inspected

with part broken off

Original Victorian Sudanese Mahdi Wars African Dervish Rhinoceros Hide Shield - circa 1890 Category_Gahendra Martini Rifles & Parts On this version of theOriginal 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 exceptionally brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the