HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER. Share full article. Oct. 2, 1898. ... who, after crushing and dispersing the wild dervish hordes of the Khalifa at Omdurman, marched on. ...

That had been 13 years earlier, in 1885. But the same troops who had slaughtered Gordon were ranged against the British at the Battle of Omdurman, in 1898 – and Joseph knew full well that the ...

By then Kitchener was already legendary as Kitchener of Khartoum. He had captured the city in 1898 after the murderous battle of Omdurman, which had left 11,000 Sudanese soldiers dead.

Dateline August 28, 1948: Sunday (September 2, 2018) will mark the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Omdurman, ... under the command of Lord Kitchener. Leeds news you can trust since 1890. Sign In.

There, 45 years after the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan in 1898, he laid out the matches to mark the relative dispositions of the Khalifa’s Dervish army and Lord Kitchener’s Anglo-Egyptian ...

Private Joseph Hopwood had been a Victorian soldier and a veteran of the Battle of Omdurman and the Boer War, before he was invited to rejoin his regiment and fight in the Great War ...