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Badi VII 1805 - 1821 was the last ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar.

Badi offered no resistance to Ismail Pasha, who had led the khedive
Khedive

Khedive was a title first used by Muhammad Ali of Egypt as governor and monarch of Egypt and Sudan, and subsequently by his dynastic successors....
 army of his father up the Nile
Nile

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....
 to his capital at Sennar
Sennar

Sennar is a town on the Blue Nile in Sudan that is the capital of the state of Sennar . For several centuries it was the capital of the Funj Kingdom of Sennar....
. Alan Moorhead repeats Frédéric Cailliaud
Frédéric Cailliaud

Fr?d?ric Cailliaud was a France mineralogist and conchologist. He was born, and died, in Nantes.He travelled in Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia, collecting minerals and making observations....
's impression of Badi, that the king was an extremely limited little man who was stunned by the loss of his kingdom, taking particular note that Badi "was intregued by Cailliaud's gift of a box of matches."

According to Moorhead, even had the king wanted to resist, he had few resources to do so.






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Badi VII 1805 - 1821 was the last ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar.

Badi offered no resistance to Ismail Pasha, who had led the khedive
Khedive

Khedive was a title first used by Muhammad Ali of Egypt as governor and monarch of Egypt and Sudan, and subsequently by his dynastic successors....
 army of his father up the Nile
Nile

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....
 to his capital at Sennar
Sennar

Sennar is a town on the Blue Nile in Sudan that is the capital of the state of Sennar . For several centuries it was the capital of the Funj Kingdom of Sennar....
. Alan Moorhead repeats Frédéric Cailliaud
Frédéric Cailliaud

Fr?d?ric Cailliaud was a France mineralogist and conchologist. He was born, and died, in Nantes.He travelled in Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia, collecting minerals and making observations....
's impression of Badi, that the king was an extremely limited little man who was stunned by the loss of his kingdom, taking particular note that Badi "was intregued by Cailliaud's gift of a box of matches."

According to Moorhead, even had the king wanted to resist, he had few resources to do so. There was no sign of the famous cavalry of Black Horses which had impressed James Bruce
James Bruce

James Bruce was a Scotland traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile....
 forty years before, and his armament consisted of four rusty canons which were "flung into the Blue Nile to appease the Turks." Of the town itself, the palace and mosque "the only two buildings of any consequence in Sennar, were tumbling down, and the inhabitants no more steadfast; Cailliaud singled out the women of the town, "who were much given to smoking and beer-drinking."

Badi emerged from the town "to surrender and offer gifts of horses and their trappings to the conquerors. Ismail had served coffee, had presented Badi with asomwhat unsuitable fur-lined cloak, and on June 14 had led his rabble in the town, where they began their usual lootings and reprisals, including one particularly horrible impalement
Impalement

Impalement is a term that refers to situations in which objects are driven through the body, causing deep stabbing wounds. It can refer either to accidental events or to deliberate wounding used as a method of torture or execution....
."

Badi was reinstated as the nominal ruler of this province, but Moorhead aptly quotes Crawford's words that "the long-drawn-out death agony of the Kingdom of Sennar was finished."