After his appointment, he worked tirelessly to end slavery, torture, and public flogging.
Although working as an official for the Ottoman Empire, Gordon found their laws unnecessarily cruel. Gordon was highly experienced and had worked in many areas of the world, such as the Danube, China, and the Great Lakes region in Africa. He was later made governor General of Sudan. In 1873, Charles George Gordon entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt with the backing of the British government. 1900, via National Army Museum, LondonĬharles Gordon: 1873 to 1880 Major-General Charles George Gordon, Governor General of Sudan, via Encyclopaedia Britannica The Black Watch at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir, 1882, by Henri Louis Dupray, c. The region was highly volatile throughout the entirety of Egyptian rule. During this time, the biggest economic enterprise was slavery.
Egyptian rule was harsh in the beginning as it sought to quell unrest. The conquest was long and studded with many battles, but after four years, the conquest was complete. In 1820, Muhammad Ali’s army left Egypt and began the invasion. To do this, he wanted a slave army, and Sudan was the perfect source. He was originally sent to recover Egypt after Napoleon’s withdrawal in 1805, but Ali had different plans for Egypt and wanted it to supplant the Ottoman Empire as the dominant power in the region. Although technically answerable to the Ottoman authorities, they had little control over him, and Ali ruled Egypt as a de facto independent state. The history of Sudan in colonial times is intrinsically tied to the actions of Egypt and stretches back to 1805 with the accession of Muhammad Ali to the governorship of Egypt, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Background to British Presence in Sudan The pasha of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, via Encyclopaedia Britannica
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