HIS 1101 Lecture 5: 5.1 - Canada At War 1914-1919.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1101
• Professor: Polec Patryk

Document Summary

In 1881, religious leader mohammad ahmed, declared himself the mahdi, the messiah of islam: he set out to clear his country of foreign influnces, gordon khartoum under siege at khatroum, a british force under the command of general charles gordon was, march 1884, britain organized a rescue expedition under g. wolseley which, for 6 months they paddled up the nile (to go from behind, arrived too late, the city had fallen by the mahdists and gordon had been killed, shows canadian involvement in this conflict, even though they did not take part consisted of 386 voyageurs in warfare. British suffered one setback after another: britain called upon empire to help, laurier was in a desperate and difficult position, support britain and lose support in quebec, avoid committing canada and enrage british canada, laurier had to compromise, decided to send volunteers providing that britain paid their expneses.