The Sirdar: Sir Reginald Wingate and the British Empire in the Middle East, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 222)

Francis Reginald Wingate (1861—1953) was a major figure in the political, administrative, and military history of the Middle East from the early 1880s until the end of WWI. As dir. of military intelligence in the British—officered Egyptian Army during the Sudan campaigns; as sirdar (commander—in—chief) of that army and gov.—gen. of the Sudan during the formative period of its colonial admin.; and as high commissioner in Egypt during the latter half of the first world war and the crisis that...