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Hicks, William, known as Hicks Pasha 1830-83
English soldier

After long service in India (1848-80) he commanded the Egyptian forces in the Sudan who were annihilated by the Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmed) at El Obeid (1883, The Battle of Kashgil).