The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

BATTLE OF OMDURMAN

The Battle of Omdurman was fought on September 2nd 1898 during the Sudan Campaign. 23,000 British and Egyptian troops under Kitchener defeated 50,000 Dervishes under the Khalifa with a great slaughter of the Dervishes, and the destruction of the Mahdist state, thereby beginning British dominance in the Sudan.
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