File:A room in Jackson's palace.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(2,048 × 1,365 pixels, file size: 499 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: After service with the Gordon Highlanders in Egypt, at the Battles of El Teb and Tamai and with the Gordon Relief Expedition, Jackson joined the Egyptian Army in 1888 and was to become one of the Founding Fathers of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. as Deputy Sirdar and Governor-General, often standing in for Wingate and Stack in their absences.

Throughout the campaign of reconquest he commanded the 11th Soudanese Battalion, notorious for its ferocity in action and unruliness in camp, whose men regarded him as a kind of demi-god, sometimes to his embarrassment trying to protect him from the dangers of battle.

He was OC Troops during the Fashoda Incident and, part of his education having been in France, was able to form a remarkable rapport with Marchand’s French expedition thus smoothing the way towards a diplomatic settlement of the crisis.

When he was promoted to the governorship of Berber Province in 1900 some elements of his old battalion mutinied and he was recalled to settle the problem which he did by negotiating with the senior wives of the battalion. Certainly he had a way with the ladies and as Governor of Dongola Province for twenty years he was reputed to have had several Sudanese wives to one of whom he raised a monument. On retirement he farmed near Merowe where he died in 1930. One of his grandsons, known as Jacksa, is said to have played for the Omdurman football team.

(Melik Society)
Date
Source Own work
Author Omar Hashim Mohammed

Licensing[edit]

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.


File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current10:58, 27 October 2020Thumbnail for version as of 10:58, 27 October 20202,048 × 1,365 (499 KB)Omar Hashim Mohammed (talk | contribs)Uploaded own work with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata