Qualla: Battle of Ginnis https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Ginnis https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis Battle of Ginnis: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis/ The men of the Royal Berkshires wore red, and they knew it was probably the last time. At 5 AM on December 30, 1885, in the cold desert predawn near a Nile village called Ginnis, two British infantry brigades marched out of their bivouac in uniforms that had been the visual signature of the British Army for over two centuries. The Durham Light Infantry had already switched to khaki before heading south from Cairo. The Berkshires kept their scarlet. Over the next few hours of fighting against the Mahdist forces that had besieged the Ginnis-Kosha fort, the red coats took their last confirmed casualties on a battlefield. After Ginnis, the British Army would go quietly and permanently into khaki.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/w/battle-of-ginnis-wp/setw-battle-of-ginnis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Ginnis: The War That Killed Gordon https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis/ The Battle of Ginnis was a small action in the larger Mahdist War, which had begun in 1881 when a Sudanese religious leader named Muhammad Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam, and launched a revolt against Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan. In 1884 his f...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/w/battle-of-ginnis-wp/setw-battle-of-ginnis-the-war-that-killed-gordon.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Ginnis: The Siege and the Relief https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis/ Thousands of Mahdist warriors under their provincial amirs began raiding around Ginnis through the autumn of 1885. They besieged the fort, and at one point a Mahdist artillery barrage dismounted the garrison's Gardner gun, a hand-cranked machine gun that was the fort's main heavy...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/w/battle-of-ginnis-wp/setw-battle-of-ginnis-the-siege-and-the-relief.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Ginnis: A Morning of Small Crises https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis/ Grenfell's column moved out before dawn on December 30. The steamer Lotus, gun-mounted, tracked them on the Nile. The fort's garrison, seeing the relief force arrive, sortied out and seized the town of Kosha. On the river the Lotus reported a large Mahdist formation moving out of...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/w/battle-of-ginnis-wp/setw-battle-of-ginnis-a-morning-of-small-crises.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Ginnis: The Atab Defile https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis/ The main Mahdist force pulled back into a rocky defile called the Atab, where the ground favored defenders. Grenfell sent Colonel Blake's cavalry brigade in. British Mounted Infantry took the defile with a bayonet charge, and a general pursuit began, though Blake halted before it...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/w/battle-of-ginnis-wp/setw-battle-of-ginnis-the-atab-defile.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Ginnis: The End of the Red Coat https://qualla.com/battle-of-ginnis/ Ginnis closed out what historians call the First Sudan Campaign. It was followed by a decade of quieter operations until Sirdar Herbert Kitchener led an Anglo-Egyptian army back into Sudan in 1896, culminating in the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and the crushing of the Mahdist stat...

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