During the war, the Thuilliers’ yard became a makeshift studio. Eventually, they painted a backdrop featuring classical ...

England sent a force of its own to Fashoda, led by Maj. Gen. Horatio Herbert Kitchener, who had won the battle of Omdurman. Kitchener arrived a few months later, with an armed flotilla and some ...

Among them was Winston Churchill, then the 42-year-old First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Also present was First Sea Lord John “Jackey” Fisher and Secretary of War Herbert Kitchener.

The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman from early morning on Thursday, residents said, after declaring victory over their Rapid Support Forces rivals in a two-year ...

Thirteen years later, another British army, under General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (thenceforth known as K of K, Kitchener of Khartoum), set out to avenge Gordon. As the dervishes tried to cut ...

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 ...

While war prevails in Karari, north of Sudan's second city of Omdurman, and the old neighbourhoods of Omdurman in the south, it is the only spot in Khartoum state that still enjoys some of the ...

MOVING UPON OMDURMAN; Anglo-Egyptian Forces Have Skirmish with Dervishes and Gunboats Pour Shells Upon Them. STORM DEMOLISHES WIRES Grave Fears Were Felt Throughout England Concerning the ...

The massacre of the army of Sudanese Dervishes on a plain near Omdurman in the Sudan was an occasion that a new military technology was tested – to devastating effect – by Britain in battle. It proved ...

Located astride the headwaters of the Nile River, the Sudan is rich in history but little else. It was the home of the dervishes who defeated and put to death Britain's General Charles ...

On September 2, 1898 at Omdurman on the banks of the Nile just south of Khartoum, an Anglo-Egyptian army under the command of General Herbert Horatio Kitchener faced a Sudanese army led by the Khalifa ...