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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which Empire had controlled Egypt since 1517?	Ottoman Empire	100%
Which Prime Minister decided to intervene in Egypt?	Gladstone	92%
How many Europeans died in Anti-Christian riots in Alexandria 1882?	50	77%
What percentage of Egyptian exports did the British purchase?	80%	77%
What percentage of shipping passing through the Suez Canal was British?	80%	77%
Who was sent as Governor of Sudan in 1873?	General Charles Gordon	77%
Who was the new Consul General?	Sir Evelyn Baring	77%
Who was the leader of the radical Islamist movement in Sudan?	The Mahdi	77%
How many survived out of the 8000 that were on this campaign in 1883?	300	69%
How much of Gladstone’s personal wealth was invested in Egypt?	37%	69%
Which Prime Minister decided to purchase the Suez Canal shares?	Benjamin Disraeli	69%
What did the decline of this Empire create in areas around north Africa?	Power vacuum	69%
In what year was the Suez Canal completed?	1869	62%
How many times did the British promise to leave Egypt?	60+	62%
What resource made up most of the Egyptian exports to Britain?	Cotton	62%
When did he retire to England?	1880	54%
In what year was Gordon sent, for the second time, to carry out Gladstone’s instructions?	1884	54%
How late was Gladstone’s relief expedition, which failed to rescue Gordon?	2 Days	54%
What did Arabi Pasha do in 1879? (2)	Installed a nationalist cabinet under Tewfik	54%
Name the Khedive in 1875?	Ishmail	54%
Name an important General who was inspired by Gordon.	Kitchener	54%
What was Gladstone’s solution to the problems in the Sudan?	Leave	54%
What 2 projects had British investors and bond holders financed in Egypt? (2)	Railways	54%
Name the Khedive in 1876?	Tewfik	54%
In what year did Lord Salisbury order the reconquest of Sudan?	1896	46%
When did Baring leave Egypt?	1907	46%
True or false. Gladstone changed his mind immediately after Gordon’s death, and ordered the reconquest of the Sudan.	False	46%
Where did the British and French meet?	Fashoda	46%
On what date did the Mahdist forces successfully break into Khartoum? (Month and Year)	January 1885	46%
Who became the new Prime Minister after the fall of Liberalism in Britain?	Lord Salisbury	46%
What name do we give to Britain’s occupation of Egypt?	Veiled protectorate	46%
How many Mahdi died in the ensuing battle?	10,000	38%
When was Gordon first appointed Governor of the Equatorial Provinces by Ismail Pasha?	1873	38%
When did Britain declare the whole of the Nile Valley to be within her “sphere of influence”?	1890	38%
How much did he borrow from the Rothschilds to reverse cuts to the Egyptian Army? (In pounds)	40,000	38%
Who was not?	France	38%
Who led a military campaign against the Islamist leader?	Sir William Hicks	38%
When was Arabi Pasha exiled to Ceylon having been captured in September 1882? (Month & Year)	December 1882	31%
Which new weapon of war did the British have with them as they approached Omdurman in 1898?	Maxim gun	31%
By how much had Egyptian debt increased between 1863 and 1870? (In pounds)	3 Million to 100 Million	23%
How many British died at Omdurman?	47	23%
What did Kitchener hold in Khartoum?	A funeral for Gordon	23%
Where was Kitchener heading (initially)?	Dongola	15%
What did they do, instead of going to War?	Had a party	15%
What kind of tactics was Kitchener ordered to use?	Slow & steady	15%
How did the Mahdi die?	Typhus	15%
When did the Mahdi die?	6 Months after the siege of Khartoum	8%
He saw his death coming. What did he do?	Appointed 3 lieutenants to rule in his stead	8%
What did he worry the French were trying to do?	Control the source of the Nile	8%
What things did the British and French do as part of their system of Dual Control? (2)	Cuts to army staff and pay	8%
Name a way in which Gordon’s legacy made a lasting impression on the British public.	Desire to avenge Gordon	8%
How did Churchill feel about this battle?	Did not like it, found Kitchener merciless	8%
What did Gordon do to make himself a celebrity in Britain (before Khartoum) (4)	Effective in Crimea	8%
What did Gordon do to make himself a celebrity in Britain (before Khartoum) (1)	Ended the Taiping rebellion	8%
Which two Madhist bases did Kitchener capture in 1896?	Ferkeh and Atbara	8%
Give two reasons why Gordon’s orders are seen as contradictory? (2)	Foreign office orders muddled	8%
What 2 projects had British investors and bond holders financed in Egypt? (1)	Harbor building	8%
Why might Gordon not have wanted to evacuate the garrison at Khartoum? (2)	Hatred for Mahdi	8%
Why should Baring be described as racist?	He said he “had no time for the oriental mind”	8%
What is his most controversial act? (not needed for the spec but certainly worth knowing!)	Invented concentration camps	8%
Name 2 achievements of Baring in Egypt? (2)	Investments secure	8%
Who was in charge of the 120 strong French detachment?	Major Marchand	8%
What two reforms did he want to make? (1)	Make Egypt solvent	8%
What did both sides agree to do?	Refer the issue to London and Paris respectively	8%
What did Arabi Pasha do in 1879? (1)	Staged a successful coup	8%
What things did the British and French do as part of their system of Dual Control? (1)	Supervise spending	8%
What did Gordon do to make himself a celebrity in Britain (before Khartoum) (3)	Thought he found various religious sites	8%
Why might Gordon not have wanted to evacuate the garrison at Khartoum? (1)	Wanted to end slave trade	8%
What was was Kitchener given command in, which he held until his death?	WW1	8%
What were the reasons the French did not follow through with the Gambetta Note in 1882? (2)	Bismarck told them no	0%
What were the competing British and French objectives in Africa?	Britain to link colonies in north to south, French to link east to west	0%
Why did France eventually back down after Fashoda? (2)	British naval dominance	0%
Give two reasons why Gordon’s orders are seen as contradictory? (1)	Came from both Baring and the foreign office	0%
What were the reasons the French did not follow through with the Gambetta Note in 1882? (1)	Change in public opinion & leadership	0%
What were Kitchener’s sealed orders, which he read when he encountered this group?	Control the Nile Valley	0%
In what way did Gordon actually make things worse in the Sudan? (2)	Created a mini power vacuum into which the Mahdi stepped	0%
What does it mean that Egypt was “solvent” under Baring?	Debts paid off	0%
What did Gordon do to make himself a celebrity in Britain (before Khartoum) (2)	Dedicated to improving the lives of young boys in his hometown	0%
What happened to the Italians in 1896 that further convinced Salsbury that a show of European force in Africa was necessary?	Defeated at the battle of Awadh	0%
In what way did Gordon actually make things worse in the Sudan? (1)	Destabilised the country by removing slave traders	0%
Why might Gordon not have wanted to evacuate the garrison at Khartoum? (4)	Did not believe Britain should leave the Sudan	0%
How did the relationship changed between Egypt and the Sudan in the 19th Century?	Egypt resorted to formal occupation rather than charging the Sudanese a tribute	0%
Name 2 achievements of Baring in Egypt? (1)	Egypt was solvent	0%
What did Salisbury do as a result of these victories?	Extended the initial objective of Dongola to the whole of the Sudan	0%
Who was ok with this?	Germans and all other nations	0%
Why did France eventually back down after Fashoda? (1)	Internal political struggles	0%
How did Kitchener diffuse the situation?	Left the French flag in place	0%
In what way was his vision for Egypt not compatible with what Gladstone and Salisbury wanted to do?	Made them stay in Egypt when official policy was to leave	0%
What nickname did Gladstone earn for failing to rescue Gordon?	Murdered of Gordon	0%
What was Kitchener ordered to do with his supply lines?	Never stretch or break them	0%
Name 2 failures of Baring Egypt. (2)	No changes to education system	0%
What two reforms did he want to make? (2)	Protect the irrigation of the cotton fields in the Nile delta	0%
Name 2 failures of Baring Egypt. (1)	Tax burden fell on the poorest	0%
What was the second concern expressed by Salisbury?	The resurgent Mahdist forces	0%
Why might Gordon not have wanted to evacuate the garrison at Khartoum? (3)	Thought he was doing God’s work	0%
What did he do with the remains of the Mahdi?	Threw the bones in the Nile and kept his skull	0%
How did Parliament and Baring feel about these actions?	Unacceptable, ordered tomb resealed	0%
What does the treatment of the French at Fashoda and the treatment of the Mahdi at Omdurman show?	Vast difference between how the British treated white people vs black people	0%
How was Kitchener different to Gordon?	Very methodical and by the book	0%