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Bookmark or Share- Battle of Omdurman - British BattlesPlace of the Battle of Omdurman: To the north of Omdurman along the west bank of the River Nile in the Sudan. Combatants at the Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptians against the Sudanese Dervish Empire of the Khalifa. Commanders at the Battle of Omdurman: The Egyptian Sirdar, Major General Herbert Kitchener, commanded the British and Egyptian troops.
- The Gunboats of Omdurman | Naval History Magazine - October 2023 ...2 September 1898: As the outnumbered troops of Major General Herbert Kitchener’s Anglo-Egyptian expeditionary force square off against the Mahdi Army on the outskirts of Omdurman, the Nile flotilla of British gunboats—which will prove to be a decisive factor in the battle’s ultimate outcome—can be seen in the upper left.
- What We Learned: from Omdurman - HistoryNetThinking the battle won, Kitchener ordered an advance on Omdurman, the 21st Lancers in the lead. Attached to the cavalry unit was a young Winston Churchill, doing double duty as army officer and war correspondent. Spotting what appeared to be a few hundred Mahdists, the 400 men of the 21st charged. But the Lancers ran up against 2,500 more ...
- Battle of Omdurman | History TodayThe massacre of the army of Sudanese Dervishes on a plain near Omdurman in the Sudan was an occasion that a new military technology was tested – to devastating effect – by Britain in battle. It proved a major factor in Kitchener’s victory, in his efforts to re-conquer Sudan from the Madhists who had killed General Gordon in 1885, as well ...
- The Battle of Omdurman - MILITARY HISTORY ONLINEDuring the Battle of Omdurman 8,200 British and 17,600 Egyptian and Sudanese troops fought a decisive engagement with 52,000 Dervish soldiers. The battle was, as war correspondent for The Morning Post Winston Churchill noted, "A mere matter of machinery." British losses were 48 killed and 434 wounded.
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