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battle of Omdurman
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Noun1.battle of Omdurman - a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese
Soudan, Sudan - a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea


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Kitchener was 11 weeks away from fighting the Battle of Omdurman and the outbreak of the Boer War lay 16 months into the future.
In his time William Gladstone ordered the British invasion of Egypt in 1882, which was followed by the invasion of Sudan and the slaughter of thousands of protonational Sudanese warriors at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.
A Tory imperialist in action (cavalryman at the battle of Omdurman in 1898), then a reforming Liberal, ally of David Lloyd George, Churchill swung back to the Tories in the 1920s, never really trusted until they had to accept him in 1940.
 
 
 
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