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- Siege_of_Khartoum abstract "The Battle of Khartoum, Siege of Khartoum or Fall of Khartoum was the conquest of British-held Khartoum by the Mahdist forces led by Muhammad Ahmad. British forces and their Egyptian allies had held the city for some time prior, but the siege that the Mahdists engineered and carried out from March 13, 1884, to January 26, 1885 was enough to wrest control away from the colonial leaders. After a ten-month siege, when the Mahdists finally broke into the city, the entire garrison of British and Egyptian soldiers (along with some Sudanese supporters) was killed.".