The British Empire in Africa during the Age of Victoria

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The African Continent

• European Possessions in Africa in 1884 — and What Happened Next
• Mary Kingsley: Demystifying Africa

Central Africa

• Memorial to Major A.B. Thruston (murdered during the Ugandan Mutiny)

Egypt and Northern Africa

• Egypt (homepage)
• Soodan, Soudan, or Sudan from The Imperial Gazetteer (1856)
• The Sudan and the Nile Expedition (homepage)
• The Geography of the Sudan from The Encylopædia Brittanica (1894)
• “A Scrimmage in a Border Station” — The death of William Cameron in the Sudan
• Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt
• Misr Railroad Station, Alexandria, Egypt
• New Passages to India

Southern Africa

• The Boer War (sitemap)
• The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 (sitemap)
• Rhodesia (index)
• The Victims of Fugitives’ Drift
• The Defence of Rorke's Drift (painting by Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler))

Bibliography

• Some Contemporary Discussions of England, Egypt, and the Sudan

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