Historical prints of The Charge of the 21st Lancers at the
Battle of Omdurman shown in historical art prints of the Sudan Campaigns
where three Victoria Crosses were won and Winston Churchill was one of the
officers in the Charge. Military prints by Richard Caton Woodville and
Rowlandson, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the military print company.
BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, September 2nd
1898.
During his two and half year campaign to
re conquor the Sydan. General Horatio Herbert, Kitchener later Lord
Kitchener continued up the Nile building a railroad as he progressed. The Mahdist
offered resistants as he went. Finally at the end of August 1898.
Kitchener arrived at Omdurman on the left bank of the Nile opposite
Khartoun, (where 13 years earlier General Gordon was killed). It was
here at Omdurman that the Khalifa had his capital. The British force
of 15,000 men attacked the superior numbers of Sudanese dervishes. a total
of nearly 43,000. The Dervishes were completely routed wiht the loss
of nearly 15,000 casualties compared to the Briths and Egyptian losses of
only 500. The Khalifa escaped but only to be hunted down and
killed by Sir Francis Reginald on the November 24th 1899. With the
Main commander ot the Khalifa. Osman Digna being captured on January 19th
1900.
