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Years: 1888 - 1899
The British government authorizes Kitchener to launch a campaign in 1895.
The Anglo-Egyptian Nile Expeditionary Force includes twenty-five thousand eight hundred men, eighty-six hundred of whom are British; the remainder belong to Egyptian units that include six battalions recruited in Southern Sudan.
An armed river flotilla escorts the force, which also has artillery support.
The British establish their headquarters at Wadi Halfa and extend their defenses around Sawakin.
Kitchener launches the campaign in March 1896.
In September he captures Dongola.
The British now build a railroad from Wadi Halfa to Abu Hamad, and a southward extension parallel to the Nile as far as Barbar, to transport military forces.
Anglo-Egyptian units fight a sharp action at Abu Hamad, but there is little other significant resistance until Kitchener reaches Atbarah and defeatesthe Ansar.
Hereafter, Kitchener's soldiers march and sailed to Omdurman, where the Khalifa makes his last stand.
The Anglo-Egyptian Nile Expeditionary Force includes twenty-five thousand eight hundred men, eighty-six hundred of whom are British; the remainder belong to Egyptian units that include six battalions recruited in Southern Sudan.
An armed river flotilla escorts the force, which also has artillery support.
The British establish their headquarters at Wadi Halfa and extend their defenses around Sawakin.
Kitchener launches the campaign in March 1896.
In September he captures Dongola.
The British now build a railroad from Wadi Halfa to Abu Hamad, and a southward extension parallel to the Nile as far as Barbar, to transport military forces.
Anglo-Egyptian units fight a sharp action at Abu Hamad, but there is little other significant resistance until Kitchener reaches Atbarah and defeatesthe Ansar.
Hereafter, Kitchener's soldiers march and sailed to Omdurman, where the Khalifa makes his last stand.
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People
- Abdullah Ibn-Mohammed Al-Khalifa
- Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Tewfik Pasha
- Yohannes IV
Groups
- Nubians
- Arab people
- Beja people
- Ja'alin tribe
- Christians, Monophysite
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Funj people
- Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe)
- Ottoman Empire
- Beja people
- Sennar, Funj Sultanate of
- Baggara
- Shaigiya
- Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of
- Sudan, Turco-Egyptian
- Belgium, Kingdom of
- Egypt, Khedivate of
- Italy, Kingdom of
- France (French republic); the Third Republic
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
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Years: 1888 - 1899
Locations
People
- Abdullah Ibn-Mohammed Al-Khalifa
- Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Tewfik Pasha
- Yohannes IV
Groups
- Nubians
- Arab people
- Beja people
- Ja'alin tribe
- Christians, Monophysite
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Funj people
- Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe)
- Ottoman Empire
- Beja people
- Sennar, Funj Sultanate of
- Baggara
- Shaigiya
- Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of
- Sudan, Turco-Egyptian
- Belgium, Kingdom of
- Egypt, Khedivate of
- Italy, Kingdom of
- France (French republic); the Third Republic
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions