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See also: British soldier, entered the Bombay army in 1849, and served through the See also: Indian See also: mutiny, being mentioned in despatches for See also: good conduct at the See also: action of See also: Sitka Ghaut in 1859
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In 1861 he became captain, and in the
Abyssinian expedition of 1867-68 was a brigade major, being again mentioned in despatches and given a brevet majority
.
He retired with the honorary See also: rank of colonel in 1880
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After the close of the See also: Egyptian war of 1882, he entered the See also: khedive's service and was made a See also: pasha
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Early in 1883 he went to See also: Khartum as chief of the staff of the army there, then commanded by Suliman Niazi Pasha
.
See also: Camp was formed at See also: Omdurman and a new force of some 8000 fighting men collected—mostly recruited from the fellahin of Arabi's disbanded troops, sent in chains from See also: Egypt
.
After a See also: month's vigorous drilling Hicks led 5000 of his men against an equal force of dervishes in See also: Sennar, whom he defeated, and cleared the country between the towns of Sennar and Khartum of rebels
.
Relieved of the fear of an immediate attack by the mandists the Egyptian officials at Khartum intrigued against Hicks, who in See also: July tendered his resignation
.
This resulted in the dismissal of Suliman Niazi and the See also: appointment of Hicks .as See also: commander-in-chief of an expeditionary force to See also: Kordofan with orders to crush the See also: mandi, who in See also: January 1883 had captured El Obeid, the capital of that province
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Hicks, aware of the worthlessness of his force for the purpose contemplated, stated his'opinion that it would be best to " wait for Kordofan to See also: settle itself " (telegram of the 5th of See also: August)
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The Egyptian See also: ministry, however, did not then believe in the power of the mandi, and the expedition started from Khartum on the 9th of See also: September
.
It was made up of 7000 See also: infantry, l000 cavalry and 2000 camp followers and included thirteen Europeans
.
On the loth the force See also: left the See also: Nile at Duem and struck inland across the almost waterless wastes of Kordofan for Obeid
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On the 5th of See also: November the army, misled by treacherous guides and thirst-stricken, was ambuscaded in dense See also: forest at Kashgil, 30 M. See also: south of Obeid
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With the exception of some 300 men the whole force was killed
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According to the See also: story of Hicks's See also: cook, one of the survivors, the general was the last officer to fall, pierced by the spear of the See also: khalifa Mahommed Sherif
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After emptying his revolve' the pasha kept his assailants at See also: bay for some See also: time with his sword, a See also: body of See also: Baggara who fled before him being known afterwards as " Baggar Hicks " (the cows driven by Hicks), a See also: play on the words baggara and baggar, the former being the herdsmen and the latter the cows
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Hicks's See also: head was cut off and taken to the mandi
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See Mandiism grid the Egyptian Sudan, See also: book iv., by See also: Sir F
.
R
.
Wingate (See also: London, 1891), and With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan, by J
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Colborne (London, 1884)
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Also EGYPT: Military Operations
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