Qualla: Battle of Omdurman https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/battle-of-omdurman-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Omdurman https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman Battle of Omdurman: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman/ Photo credit Original uploader was Benutzer:DAJ at de.wikipedia, Public domain. On the morning of 2 September 1898, at a place called Kerreri about eleven kilometers north of Omdurman, somewhere between 35,000 and 50,000 Sudanese soldiers of the Mahdist state advanced on foot across a wide, flat plain toward a British-Egyptian force dug into an arc by the Nile. The Sudanese carried spears and older rifles. The British-Egyptian force had fifty-two quick-firing artillery pieces, magazine rifles, machine guns, and a flotilla of twelve gunboats in the river ready to fire over their heads. The distance opened at about 2,750 meters. Then the British opened fire.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/battle-of-omdurman-wp/sdz1-battle-of-omdurman-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Omdurman: The Army That Walked Forward https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman/ Photo credit Marsupium, CC BY 4.0. It is important to name them as people. Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, the Khalifa, had succeeded the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad as ruler of the Mahdist state in 1885. He commanded what was, by the standards of nineteenth-century African armies, a large and experienced force: cavalry, infantr...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/battle-of-omdurman-wp/sdz1-battle-of-omdurman-the-army-that-walked-forward.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Omdurman: Kitchener's Machine https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman/ Photo credit Richard Caton Woodville Jr., Public domain. Major-General Horatio Herbert Kitchener, commanding a force of 8,000 British regulars and 17,000 Egyptian and Sudanese troops in British service, had marched south from Egypt over two years. He had built a railway across the desert to feed his supply lines, captured Dongola in Se...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/battle-of-omdurman-wp/sdz1-battle-of-omdurman-kitcheners-machine.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Omdurman: Five Hours https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman/ Photo credit William Barnes Wollen, Public domain. The battle began around 6 a.m. Osman Azrak's force of 8,000 advanced directly at the British line. Some 8,000 more advanced from the northwest. The British artillery opened fire at 2,750 meters. The machine guns worked at closer ranges. The Sudanese soldiers kept coming. By most ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/battle-of-omdurman-wp/sdz1-battle-of-omdurman-five-hours.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Omdurman: The Wounded at Omdurman https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Sudani assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. After the battle, questions were asked in the British Parliament about the treatment of wounded Sudanese. Reports indicated that many were killed where they lay. Dum-dum bullets, soft-nosed rounds that expanded on impact, had been used to devastating effect. These were recorded i...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/battle-of-omdurman-wp/sdz1-battle-of-omdurman-the-wounded-at-omdurman.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Omdurman: Gordon's Revenge https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman/ Photo credit Wraikentaylor, CC BY-SA 4.0. Kitchener had personal motives. General Charles Gordon had been killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885, after the Mahdist forces overcame his garrison. His death was made into Victorian hagiography; vengeance for Gordon was part of how the British government sold the 1896-98 recon...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/z/1/battle-of-omdurman-wp/sdz1-battle-of-omdurman-gordons-revenge.mp3 0:06 6 full Battle of Omdurman: What the Victory Built https://qualla.com/battle-of-omdurman/ Photo credit Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0. The battle ended Mahdist resistance as a conventional force. The Battle of Umm Diwaykarat a year later finished off the Khalifa's remaining troops. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was established in 1899 as a condominium, and would last until 1956. The reconquest opened the upper Nile to Br...

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