معلومة تاريخية مهمة عن السودان أهملها المؤرخون,,

Quote: 1. The Sudanese Battalion The African soldiers who fought so gallantly in Mexico were, in one sense, pawns in a Euro-American imperial conflict. But they were not demeaned by it. Their story not only highlights some of the differing perceptions that prevailed about the institution of slavery—Egyptian, French, American— it also shows how the men themselves transcended their narrow lot. In Mexico, and in their later service in Africa, they took pride in all they did. They had been converted to and shared the faith of Islam, but their origins were African.