The British government authorizes Kitchener to launch…

1888 CE to 1899 CE

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.

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Khartoum > Al-Khartum Al-Khartum Sudan View →

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Abdullah Ibn-Mohammed Al-Khalifa View → Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener View → Muhammad Ahmad View → Tewfik Pasha View → Yohannes IV View →

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Nubians View → Arab people View → Beja people View → Ja'alin tribe View → Christians, Monophysite View → Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria View → Christianity, Chalcedonian View → Islam View → Muslims, Sunni View → Funj people View → Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe) View → Ottoman Empire View → Beja people View → Sennar, Funj Sultanate of View → Baggara View → Shaigiya View → Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of View → Sudan, Turco-Egyptian View → Belgium, Kingdom of View → Egypt, Khedivate of View → Italy, Kingdom of View → France (French republic); the Third Republic View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View →

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British Reconquest of Sudan View → Sudanese War of 1896-99 View →

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