White Flag League

The White Flag League (also known as the White Flag Association, White Flag Society, or the White Brigade Movement) was an organized nationalist resistance movement of Sudanese military officers, formed in 1923-1924, which made a substantial early attempt toward Sudanese independence.cite book | last=El-Sanousi | first=Magda M. | coauthors=Nafisa Ahmed El-Amin | editor = Barbara J. Nelson, Najma Chowdhury | chapter = The Women's Movement, Displaced Women, and Rural Women in Sudan | title = Women and Politics Worldwide | publisher = Yale University Press | date = 1994 | pages = 677 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ZbqezMA6_SsC&pg=PA677&as_brr=0&sig=ACfU3U10tKfV8RTpSkS9JYdcRW_x93N0Sg | isbn = 0300054084 ]

The League was founded by Lieutenant Ali Abdullatif. It advocated for "Unity of the Nile Valley," calling for Sudanese independence and unity with Egypt, and pledging allegiance to King Fuad.cite web |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/520/chrncls.htm |title=Chronicles: The Sudan Defence Force |accessdate=2008-08-09 |last= Rizk|first=Yunan Labib |date=2001-02-08 |work=Al-Ahram Weekly |publisher=Al-Ahram Weekly ]

First lieutenant Abdul Fadil Almaz led the group's insurrection of the military training academy, which ended in their defeat and the Almaz's death after the British army blew up the military hospital where he was garrisoned.Fact|date=August 2008 It has been suggestedFact|date=August 2008 that this defeat was partially the result of the Egyptian garrison in Khartoum North not supporting the insurrection with artillery as was previously promised.

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* History of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium

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