The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert is a 1912 American silent film produced by Kalem Company and distributed by General Film Company. It was directed...
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article "Dervish". Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dervishes. Derviş, a variant of the spelling Fakir Qalandariyya The Tale of the Four Dervishes Qissa...
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Sidney Olcott (redirect from The Potters of the Nile)
screenwriter. Born John Sidney Allcott in Toronto, he became one of the first great directors of the motion picture business. With a desire to be an actor, a...
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Gene Gauntier (section The Kalem Company)
(1912) The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert (1912) Missionaries in Darkest Africa (1912) Dust of the Desert (1912) Captured by Bedouins (1912) Tragedy of the...
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into the press of men and camels behind them, and were able to drive the dervishes out of the square and compel them to retreat from the field. The battle...
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The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert (1912) Luxor Egypt (1912) Missionaries in Darkest Africa (1912) Making Photoplays in Egypt (1912) A Pet of the Cairo...
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Robert G. Vignola (category People from the Province of Potenza)
The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert (1912) The Shaughraun (1912) A Sawmill Hazard (1913) A Desperate Chance (1913) The Lady Peggy's Escape (1913) The Octoroon...
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River Column (section The Gordon Relief Expedition)
white-uniformed Egyptians were wiped out by the Mahdi's men (called Dervishes by Europeans), using guns they had captured from the Egyptians. British Major-General...
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Dul Madoba (redirect from Battle of Dul Madoba)
ensued. Several Dervishes penetrated the defenses, and attempted to capture the disabled Maxim gun. But at that critical moment, the Dervishes withdrew altogether...
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(September 23, 1879 – April 12, 1947) was an American director and actor of the early motion picture industry. Clark was born on September 23, 1879, in...
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in the leading roles. As described in a film magazine reviews, Betty, the daughter of Dover the inventor, works by the day as a seamstress in the Ballard...
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to put a light in the window for the wayward girl should she ever return. She has a rough time of it, poor girl, her husband deserting her because his wealthy...
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himself. One of the Dervishes ran off, and the other (Hodges) was scared by a burning branch that Jones thrust in his face, and the Dervish begged him,...
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Slatin Pasha, C.B., Fire and Sword in the Sudan: A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895, London: Edward Arnold, 1896...
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Omdurman (redirect from History of Omdurman)
consisting of over 52,000 poorly armed desert tribesmen dervishes; in the space of five hours the battle was over. The Sudanese defenders suffered many casualties...
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soldier was, of the regiment whose square was once broken by the Mahdi's dervishes in the Sudan, he would sometimes ask for a 'pint of broken-square'....
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9 August 1913, the Somaliland Camel Constabulary suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of Dul Madoba at the hands of the Dervishes. Hassan had already...
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T. E. Lawrence (redirect from Lawrence Of Arabia)
or fight in line, or to help each other. It would, I think, be possible to make an organized force out of them.… The Hejaz war is one of dervishes against...
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his path the wounded and dead dervishes [...] and as he was passing through the doorway leading into the courtyard, another concealed dervish almost severed...
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Muhammad Ahmad (redirect from The Mahdi of the Sudan)
base in the Nuba Mountains. The Mahdi and a party of his followers, the Ansār (helpers, known in the West as "the Dervishes"), made a long march to Kurdufan...
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Mahdist War (redirect from Sudanese Dervish movement)
Rudolf Carl (1896). Fire and Sword in the Sudan; a Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes. 1879–1895. London: E. Arnold. pp. 138....
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World War I (redirect from The Outbreak of World War I)
Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and was characterised...
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though some of the context is changed and the endings of some stories changed around. The two dervishes who tell their story to the ladies of Baghdad are...
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of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the American...
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Frederick Burnaby (category People from the Borough of Melton)
the Gardner gun and then the Heavy Camel Corps get out and attack the enemy. Some Dervishes got inside before the gap closed, but the back ranks of the...
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EverQuest II expansions (redirect from EverQuest II: Desert of Flames)
and the dervish city of Maj'Dul. Also many instances such as Poets Palace and Shimmering Citadel are available with Desert of Flames. Desert of Flames...
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This list contains 1808 game titles released for the Amstrad CPC home computer series. This number is always up to date by this script. Contents: Top...
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Haroun (Fadhiweyn) (redirect from Somali Dervish movement)
headquarters of the Dervishes, headed by Faarax Mahmud Sugulle. According to Claude Edward Marjoribanks Dansey, the political officer in the British Somali...
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Scramble for Africa (redirect from Causes of the Scramble for Africa)
recognise any territories the Dervishes were to acquire. After a quarter of a century of holding the British at bay, the Dervishes were finally defeated in...
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Ogaden (redirect from Ogaden Desert)
violence of the raids resulted in Somalis consolidating behind the Dervish Movement under the lead of Sayyid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan. As the Ethiopian...
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