Janus: Hicks Pasha and his staff

RCS contains:
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Y3041D	G.H. Williams collection on Egypt 1925
Y304296A	J.W.S. Macfie Ethiopian collection 1935-36
Y3042A	Suakin [i.e. Sawakin] 1885
Y3042B	Photographs of Egypt and the Sudan, 1870s-80s
Y3042C	Khartoum 1898
Y3042D	Hicks Pasha and his staff
Y3042E-J	I.C. Redwood Collection
Y3043A-B	Trousdell Southern Nigeria Photographs, 1905-7
Y3043AA	Grave of Commander Hugh Clapperton, Sokoto
Y3043BB	British Cameroons 1937-42
Y3043C	J.W.S. Macfie West African collection. 1910-22
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Hicks Pasha and his staff

Title	Hicks Pasha and his staff
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3042D
Creator	Unknown
Covering Dates	circa 1883
Extent and Medium	1 image in 1 volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

115 x 85 mm. Woodburytype frontispiece, to Colborne (1884).

William Hicks Pasha (1830-1883) served in the Indian Army. In 1883 he was appointed by the Egyptian Government to command a field force against the Mahdists, which entered Kordofan, but was defeated at Kashgil, an engagement in which Hicks and all his staff were killed.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Hicks Pasha and his staff, Y3042D

Further information

This photograph appears in: Colborne, John (1884), 'With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan: being an account of the Senaar campaign in 1883', London: Smith, Elder. Please order in the Rare Books Room, classmark RCS.C.42c.32.

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by SG using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: Africa, fiche numbers 20-21.

Index Terms

Africa

Sudan

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