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'The Death of the Khalifa', 1899, (c1900). Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, styled Khalifat al-Mahdi (usually rendered as 'Khalifa'), was caught and killed by Sir Reginald Wingate's Egyptian column at Umm Diwaikarat in Kordofan on 25 November 1899. His death marked the defeat of the Mahdist State in Sudan. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne]