Which city was the site of the dervish rebellion and the death of the British General Gordon in 1885?
Battle and theatre honours of the Australian Army Battle and theatre honours of the Australian Army The Australian Army and its forerunners have won many battle and theatre honours since its formation. The first honour given to an Australian unit came prior to Federation and was awarded to forces from the colony of New South Wales, which contributed a small contingent consisting of an infantry battalion, with artillery and support units to take part in the short-lived British campaign against the Dervish revolt in the eastern Sudan in 1885 following the death of General Charles Gordon at Khartoum. The next conflict that saw Australian units receive battle or
Death and the Dervish Death and the Dervish Death and the Dervish (/Дервиш и смрт) is a novel by Meša Selimović, published in 1966. The novel was made into a 1974 feature-length film of the same name. Sheikh Nuruddin is a respected dervish in an Islamic monastery in eighteenth century Bosnia. He learns his brother Harun has been arrested by the Ottoman authorities but he struggles to determine exactly what happened and what he should do. He narrates the story as a kind of elaborate suicide note “from a need stronger than benefit or reason” and regularly misquotes (or misunderstands) the Quran, the sacred