John Donald Hamill Stewart (15 October 1845 – 26 September 1884) was a British Army colonel who served as General Charles Gordon's aide during the Mahdist War; both Gordon and Stewart were killed at the Siege of Khartoum.
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John Donald Hamill Stewart was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1845, and he became a cornet in the British Army hussars in 1865. In 1882, he was sent to the Sudan to prepare a report on the Egyptian army amid Muhammad Ahmad's rise to power. He published the "Report on the Soudan" in 1883, detailing the weakness of the Egyptian army. As a result, he was sent back to Sudan as the second-in-command of General Charles Gordon, and they proceeded to fight against the Mahdists in the Siege of Khartoum. In September 1884, he attempted to break the blockade of the city aboard the steamer Abbas, but he, the British and French consuls, and other residents of Khartoum were massacred by the Arab tribes when the Abbas ran aground and was trapped.
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