Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout •Navy blue wool tunic with

•Navy blue wool tunic with badges

It features a faded blue cotton and rayon lining

first raised in 1685 as the Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Horse

The sword was found in a British Flea/Antique Market in NEWARK

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout •Navy blue wool tunic withOriginal 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