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Quotation from The River War by Winston Churchill

“Presently those who attended him could doubt no longer that he was attacked by typhus fever”

Winston Churchill

The River War, Chapter III: The Dervish Empire (1902 edition)

Portrait of Winston Churchill

The Mahdi's sudden illness and death in June 1885, five months after taking Khartoum.

Citation: "Presently those who attended him could doubt no longer that he was attacked by typhus fever" — Winston Churchill, The River War, Chapter III: The Dervish Empire (1902 edition). (id the-river-war-q2)

Portrait: The Roaring Lion, Flickr : Sir Winston Churchill, Public domain.

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