Egyptian nationalists claimed conquest rights over the Sudan through blood and money spent

Evidence

Nationalistic assertions over the political map of the Nile Valley had changed little during the same twenty-year period: the Sudan was Egypt’s, geographically, politically, and culturally.The Wafd delegation argued that Egypt, even more than Great Britain, had gained the right of conquest in the Sudan during 1899 by the sheer numbers of Egyptian soldiers who had fought under General Kitchener. In addition to suffering casualties in the war, Egypt had spent millions of pounds on the Sudan since the reconquest. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 828

Categorization

• XREF: Pushes back on the reader’s Egypt-vs-Sudan binary: Egyptian nationalists themselves held colonial ambitions over the Sudan.