Original Mardi Crusader Sword from War in the Desert Circa 1880 Martini-Henry Rifles The reverse of the grip

The reverse of the grip frame is also stamped M42

With two combat assaults under its belt

Correct attaching brass hooks on rear

embroidered lieutenant bars

These cartridges consisted of a pre-measured load of black powder and a ball

Original Mardi Crusader Sword from War in the Desert Circa 1880 Martini-Henry Rifles The reverse of the gripOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1884 British General Gordon was butchered at the fall of Khartoum about which a famous film, of the same name, was later produced staring Charlton Heston. The Mardi tribesmen were an ancient nomadic race sometimes nicknamed (by the British) the "Fuzzy Wuzzys" that had occupied northeast Africa near the Red Sea for more than a millennia. This tribe fought the Crusaders with Saladin in the 13th century and early