In 1885 Sir Allen Young was master of the hospital ship Stella supporting British military actions in the Soudan.
In 1884, it ran the first main line train between Two Harbors and Soudan, Minnesota, a total distance of 68 miles.
Soudan is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Breitung Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
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The community is located immediately east of the city of Tower on State Highway 1 (MN 1) and State Highway 169 (MN 169).
Gregory obtains a position as interpreter in the expedition under Lord Kitchener which is advancing into the Soudan to attack the Dervish forces.
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The township is named after Edward Breitung, who was a miner from Michigan and a former U.S. Representative from that state; in the 1880s he helped to develop the Soudan Mine in the township.
While isolated in modern Niger, it once lay on the important central soudan route of the Trans-Saharan trade which linked coastal Libya and the Fezzan to the Kanem-Bornu Empire near Lake Chad.
He founded the French forts at Kita (1881) and Bamako (1883), which became two of the key towns of French Soudan.