THE hero of the year in British eyes is not Sir William Lockhart, who in India thrashed the Mohmands, the Afridis, and the Orakzais, and then retired, but Sirdar Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, who ...

The end game was on September 2, 1898 at the Battle of Omdurman. The Mahdist army was awe inspiring in its size, stretched across five miles of the plain.

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.

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 ...

Dateline August 28, 1948: Sunday (September 2, 2018) will mark the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Omdurman, which we alluded to briefly last week. This was the battle in which a young Winston ...

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 ...