Inglise keelt kõnelevate maade ajaloo eksamiküsimused
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remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa. The khedive asked for Gordon
to succeed Baker as governor of the region. After a short stay in Cairo, Gordon proceeded to
Khartoum. He ignored the orders to evaquate the area as soon as possible and he found
himself surrounded in Khartoum in 1885. He was killed fighting the warriors of the Mahdi
and died a martyr's death.
*The British expansion in East Africa The Sultan of Zanzibar received, in exhange of
some of his terriories in the north, a land along the coast which the british East Africa
Company leased. Zanzibar was annexed and recognized as a British protectorate. A
protectorate was also established over the Republic of Uganda. A year later British East
Africa became a protectorate.
*The British expansion in West Africa The unprofitable coastal stations in Sierra Leone
had provided useful bases for the campaign against the slave trade. When the Dutch
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