Egyptian nationalists claimed the Sudan was Egyptian territory won by Egyptian blood.

Evidence

By 1898, as it became clearer that the British were about to reconquer the Sudan, Kämil mourned the impending castration of his nation. Almost like a eunuch, Egypt was to suffer in its most sensitive part. He mourns this in vivid language in an article in the French newspaper Le Clair, after the retaking of Atbara in the Sudan: “There is no doubt that the blood and money of Egyptians were sacrificed in order to conquer the Sudan [fath alsüdän], which gave Egyptians the first right in its administration and in mastering its resources.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 727

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s comparative Egypt-Sudan colonial framework and to wider debates about Egypt’s own colonial role in the Sudan.