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The battle took place on 2 September 1898, at Kerreri, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of Omdurman. Following the establishment of the Mahdist State in Sudan, and the subsequent threat to the regional status quo and to British-occupied Egypt, the British government decided to send an expeditionary force with the task of overthrowing the Khalifa.
English: The second of four lithographs of the battle of Omdurman (2 September, 1898) by A. Sutherland, showing the situation at 6.30 a.m. National Army Museum.
English: General Kitchener and the Anglo-egyptian Nile Campaign, 1898 Emir Mahmoud, leader of the Sudanese (Dervish) forces is captured at the Battle of Atbara. He is shown with a prisoner escort formed of men from the 10th Sudanese Battalion. The bloodstains on his jibba are from a bayonet wound to his left leg.
The Mahdist War [b] (Arabic: الثورة المهدية, romanized: ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.
1.1 Sudan Campaign. 1.2 Second Boer War. 1.3 World War I. 2 Gallery. 3 Ammunition. ... Bennet Burleigh, Khartoum Campaign, 1898 Describes 5-inch howitzer use in the ...
The Queen's Sudan Medal was authorised in March 1899 and awarded to British and Egyptian forces which took part in the Sudan campaign between June 1896 and September 1898. [ 1 ] The campaign reflected the British desire to reverse the defeats of the Mahdist War in the 1880s, as well as concern that France and other European powers would take ...
The regiment was originally raised in Bengal by the East India Company in 1858 as the 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry, for service in the Indian Rebellion. [1] As with all other "European" units of the Company, it was placed under the command of the British Crown in 1858, and formally moved into the British Army in 1862, when it was designated as a hussar regiment and titled the 21st ...
He immediately began sending women, children and wounded soldiers back to Egypt as the military situation deteriorated in Sudan with the south of the country being in danger of being cut off from Egypt by the Mahdist army. Britain withdrew its troops from Sudan until Khartoum was the last remaining outpost under British control.