Download or read book Omdurman 1898 written by Donald F. Featherstone and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omdurman was one of the great desert battles of the Victorian era which concluded the conquest of the Dervish Empire, and avenged the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. This dramatic conflict witnessed hordes of native warriors set against British discipline and firepower, gunboats on the Nile, a dramatic cavalry charge and Kitchener, the Sirdar, as conqueror. This book explores the events, weaponry and leaders of both sides, and accompanying illustrations and colorful graphics bring the whole campaign vividly to life.
Download or read book Battle Story Omdurman 1898 written by William Wright and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British and Egyptian cavalry were placed on either flank. Al-Taashi's followers, known as Ansar and sometimes referred to as Dervishes, numbered around 50,000, including some 3,000 cavalry. In a few hours and at a loss of less than 400 officers and men killed and wounded, the Anglo-Egyptian army defeated the 50,000 brave tribesmen who charged their enemy, regardless of the hail of Maxim bullets, many of them armed only with spears, swords and ancient chainmail armour. In concise detail, with orders of battle, maps and over fifty images, the author shows how Omdurman was a superb example of tactics in warfare. First-hand accounts from both sides help the reader to understand all the horrors and glory of that day including the famous charge of the 21st Lancers, often called the last great cavalry charge of the British Army. This was arguably the height of British Empire military dominance.
Download or read book Omdurman 1898 written by Peter Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the centenary of the battle of Omdurman and the British conquest of the Sudan, this work presents previously unavailable accounts of the campaign alongside contemporary illustrations from artists and journalists present with the troops.
Download or read book Karari written by ʻIṣmat Ḥasan Zilfū and published by Frederick Warne Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Omdurman written by John Meredith and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal accounts of a legendary battle seen through the eyes of Private George Teigh and Lieutenant Samuel FitzGibbon Cox amongst others. Both the Private and the Officer kept diaries, both recorded the same events, but with vastly differing views.Difficulties with boots, bullets and gunboats are described, but it is the eye-witness accounts that give full flavour to a fascinating campaign,which saw the last full cavalry charge.
Download or read book The Dervish Wars written by Robin Neillands and published by John Murray. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Charge written by Terry Brighton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898) an army commanded by the British General Sir Horatio Kitchener defeated the army of the Khalifa, the Dervishes. It was a bloody demonstration of the superiority of machine guns and artillery over older weapons and marked the successful end of the British efforts to re-conquer the Sudan. Around 10,000 Dervishes were killed, 15,000 wounded and 5000 were taken prisoner. Kitchener's force lost 48 men with 382 wounded. The Khalifa escaped and survived until 1899 while Kitchener was en-nobled as an earl, Kitchener of Khartoum, for his victory. This title examines the British light cavalry regiment - the 21st Lancers - involvement in the battle, for which they were awarded three Victoria Crosses. The "Military Classics" series brings military historical analysis to bear on a specific battle or campaign. Illustrated throughout with a mix of archive shots and diagrams showing the course of the campaign, the centrepiece of each is a colour section showing the uniforms and equipment of a range of combatants in detail.
Download or read book The River War written by Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The River War, Winston Churchill recounts the operations directed by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum on the Upper Nile from 1896 to 1899 that led to England's reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan. Churchill was present at the decisive battle of Omdurman, and he wrote this book while he was still a young cavalry officer.
Download or read book With Kitchener in the Soudan written by George Alfred Henty and published by London : Blackie ; Toronto : W. Briggs, Copp Clark Company. This book was released on 1903 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Gregory Hartley, who experiences the reconquest of the Sudan by the British Army in 1898.
Download or read book With Kitchener in the Soudan written by George Alfred Henty and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Gregory Hartley, who experiences the reconquest of the Sudan by the British Army in 1898.
Download or read book The Downfall of the Dervishes written by Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sudan written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898, Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army defeated the armies of dervishes at the battle of Omdurman. To commemorate the event, 11 historians have produced a reappraisal of the reconquest and its international repercussions. They examine some of the policies, personalities and issues involved.
Download or read book With Kitchener in the Soudan written by George Alfred Henty and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Gregory Hartley, who experiences the reconquest of the Sudan by the British Army in 1898.
Download or read book Sudan written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898, Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army defeated the armies of dervishes at the battle of Omdurman. To commemorate the event, 11 historians have produced a reappraisal of the reconquest and its international repercussions. They examine some of the policies, personalities and issues involved.
Download or read book Omdurman 1898 written by William J. Wright and published by Battle Story. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Written by experts for non-experts, this title includes key profiles, fact boxes, maps and orders of battle - everything you need to know.
Download or read book Sudan written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army victory at the battle of Omdurmanin 1888, 11 historians have produced a reappraisal of the reconquest and its international repercussions.
Download or read book Slaves of Fortune written by Ronald M. Lamothe and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army. Making use of unpublished primary sources and published material located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, Slaves of Fortune provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces. -- Jacket.
