This one was a slaughter with brave charges on both sides. That detail of a moving fence only to realize it's an enemy force moving right towards you must've been quite the eye opening surprise.

Great video, thank you for making it.

" Those fuzzy wuzzies -they don't like it up 'em !" Corporal Jones

Brilliant video. The AI voice seemlessly changing from a British to an American accent is wild.

Dude you've improved so much in the last few months. I'm not a big fan of the time period, and you still managed to get my attention. Very nice video brother 🙏

Very entertaining graphics!

Wow what a great new channel ❤️🙏 Love from Scotland 🙏❤️

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

Good work, awesome video.

The tactics illustrated in this video were pretty good. The sequence of the events were completely correct as they occurred. Now for the nit-picking that I observed as someone who has studied British history and has studied this batlle numerous times. This video correctly showed the British infantry as wearing the khaki uniform, however the artillery and the 21st Lancers also were clad in khaki, Also it showed the artilleryman wearing Napoleonic British uniforms and employing muzzle loading cannon. In fat the were using much more modern breach loading artillery pieces. Also it showed the Britsh using single shot Martini-Henry rifles when in reality they were carrying bolt action Lee-Metford repeating rifles. This was one of the advantages that gave them the overwhelming fire power that helped them triumph. The Egyptian troops were the one carrying the Martini-Henrys. Finally it shows the gunboats as multiple deck warships which would have been unable to navigate the rivers of the Sudan. The gunboats were shallow draft steam vessels armed with modern breach loadinsg cannon and automatic weapons such as the Nordendfelt macine gun. I hesitated even sending this nit-picking comment about this overall outstanding video, but as good asit was I would have enjoyed it more personally if some of these details had been more accurate to how things actually were. I know that these details would not have been obvious to an individual who had not studied the battle in such deep detail. Overall I feel that you did an excellent job coverinng this battle. That is why I subscribed to this channel and look forward to future videos. Congradulations on your coverage of this campaign , and I look with great anticpation on viewing all of your works.

The main reason they didn't want British influence in the region was the their abhorrent notion that the 2000 yr old highly lucrative slave trade into the middle east from the west Africa would be ended. They knew the British moral crusade to end slavery across the globe was non negotiable at any level. ( please fact check ).

Great video and love watching and learning about Victorias little wars. Crimea and Afghan wars please!

Great video! Good to see some Mahdist war content. One small nitpick I suppose I should point out is that it wasn’t ‘Ali Wad Hilu’s army which fought Broadwood in the Karari hills, but rather ‘Uthman Shaykh al-Din.

Winston Churchill was young Lt in the 21st Cavalry charge which was 320 men who thought that they were going after around 100 men but instead ran right smack into around 3,000.

You know that the British expedition to curb the slave trade has little chance of being taught in schools as anything other than imperial colonialism.

As a VET myself, I have to give you a HUGE thumbs up BROTHER- AWESOME video and I am HONORED to subscribe!! I will watch ALL your videos, hopefully in the future you can cover many many more battles!!!! I will send these to my comrades who served as well...

My grandfather who was a regular soldier in the Indian army and died before I was born told my father who told me that he had a colleague who was at Omdurman. He said that when the first British volley hit the Sudanese they heard a loud groan as the bullets struck the Sudanese and the volley fire from their bolt action rifles was just sheer murder.

By the way a very good video, very informative, thnk you.

Excellent.

You always do fantastic recreations but this one would be your best. The bravery and fanaticism of this Islamic army was impressive in the face of overwhelming firepower.

Wonderful. Such a shame that so much of the British Empire is misunderstood. No idea Britain went into Sudan to push back against Mahdist slavery. Do they tell kids at school this? Probably something sinister instead. I also think of all the great war films we've never had because Empire=Bad. Yet often it was Empire vs something so much more terrible instead.

Most of the failures you pointed out is because the footage was compiled using the game “total war Napoleon” in which only ships of the line are a available and no sea to land bombardment / battles. That’s why you see them shooting roundshot from the boat and then explosive mortar round hitting the old mortar cannons. Also I believe they said that the rifles where bolt action multi shot

Using wooden ships of the line (Nelson’s era) was a tad silly. The River gunboats were very modern & first rate ships

It is interesting to hear the name of Lt. Winston Churchill.

Very enjoyable video. The British gunboats were incorrect i that they are illustrated as Napoleonic era frigates. The actual gunboats were modern ironclads.

Could you do one on the Civil War from start to finish? I love your videos.

Good to see the case shot affect from the guns. Very effective anti pers weapon

If Russia has general winter we have field marshal summer, when men and bravery nullified by technology, nature makes the difference. Churchill acknowledged the Sudanese bravery and valor in his book Sudanese up to this day say 'the Men died in Karary' in rememberance of their fallen who faced the maxims with bare chests

Edmund Blackadder gave a riveting account of the battle.

Listen for 'Colour Sgt. Bourne'

Maxim guns played a significant role

Can you please do the battle of Mactan in the Philippines?

No mention of what part the 20 Maxim guns played.

thus Gordon was finally avenged.

Imagine being involved in such a brutal conflict. Scary.

What a lot of clearing up to do after.

I've heard of this before? In the movie with Charlton Heston and others, 'Khartoum?'

How did a British officer end up commanding an Ottoman unit? Weren't the British and Ottoman rivals? Or had the Ottomans accepted the loss of Egypt and the Mahdi was a common enemy to both?

How Long was this guys

Well, this was something. A bloodbath. A battle where Winston Churchill makes his appearance.

What's the song played at the end?

Did Britain still have wooden ships in their Navy in 1898 ?

British cavalry: "Oh look, a small group of Mahdists. Let's take care of them!" Mahdists: *Springs ambush with a larger group of men hidden nearby* British cavalry: "Bugger! But we survived and drove them off. Oh look, another small group of Mahdists! Surely there won't be another-" Mahdists: *Springs another ambush with hidden men* British cavalry: *Suprised pikachu face*

All right then…… Nobody told you to stop working.

AI narrator can’t make up its mind whether it’s British, Irish or American.

Whats the game? Modded Empire?

The Royal Camel Corp was basically the Royal Marines

Nice vid fiction, nothing like the photos I have seen of the actual event. Also having read the real accounts of the battle by the likes of Churchill and the biography of Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, who commanded many of the none British troops at the battle. I found it funny. They said that the Mardist forces never got close enough to the British lines to engage in hand to hand, apart from the cavalry actions. The artillery uniforms looked a little Napolonic!. As for the Gun boats, try looking them up on Google, plenty of original photos there. My main beef here, it the it gives kids the wrong impression of history, which is my passion.

This was only shortly before the outbreak of the Second Boer war, in which the British Army would have a totally different experience.

Ka kee!? Do you mean khaki ?

I love how those screeching about 'colonizers' never mention this, or are completely unaware of it as it doesn't fit their current narrative, which more likely.

Colour sergeant bourne 08.15, you’re welcome

Some of the illustrations are incorrect ie: the gun boats are shallow draft steel hulled equipped with breech loading guns ahd the field artillery were steel breech loading guns not Napoleanic wooden carrage cast iron muzzle loaders.

Maxim machine guns. You forget them. 20 of them

Winston Churchill, was saved in that calvery charge by having bought a German Mauser pistol with a 10 shot magazine. He could not use his sword due to a dislocated shoulder so the pistol saved him. When he was surounded by madishs he pushed the pistol in their faces as they tried to take him off his horse. Killed 10 right off, reloaded with a second magazine took a couple more out and fled out of the waddie with his life and some of his men. This is in his biography.

Before that, Sudan had been the conquered subjects of the Ottomans for a good while.

War is Hell. Always has been, always will be.

Never lost a war.

The accent keeps drifting into American. Its a really good attempt of an English accent though

?.?🤔🤔 why british kept being surprised by how many actual number of mahdists? Didn’t they use and scouts 🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Incredible people the British -it’s like a advanced alien nation - the rest of the world literally had no chance - where does it stem from - it’s incredible

Interesting that the Mahdi couldn't fielf 100,000 Army . The ''believe in his Diety being ''was not sold on the North and East Africans .Though the Bantu tribes were ?,They were as courageoue as the Zulu's ,though woefully unprepared to fight . Its amazing that some other European Arms dealer ,didn't do a good enough job,of outfitting the Mahdi's Army ? At Adwas the French and Brits supplied the Ethiopians ?

Destruction everywhere on the continent

Bro That Was So Many Wrong People Into It, However, I Know That They Didn't Had Enough Type Of British Artillery

Loo -tenant? Loo - tenant?? Left-tenant surely.

why didn't i see the Maxim machine guns? British has 20 of them. You take so much time to make animation but you dont know what you are doing.

very good but wrong artillery uniforms

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The symmetry could U clear the identity of who British people and who Egyptian people fundamentally in fact ????!!!! from cosh girl coke and cake. مملكه كوش finish

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I've been to Sudan. Why any army would fight over that god forsaken land is beyond my comprehension. It is one of the most hopeless place I had ever visited on this Earth.

Er, what are the British artillery in Napoleonic uniforms? 🤔🤔

RULE BRITANIA !!!!

The funniest bit is the royal artillery wearing out of date uniforms by about 60 years.

Bro that army was not "modest" lmao

Also the royal navy was using modern metal ships by the 1880s

Wooden ships?

Nile gunboats looked like HMS Victory? Hilarious!

The artillery are dressed in Napoleonic-era uniforms!

B n ver conquer Sudan , why then they never settle. Madi triumph at the end . Also known our ppl just had spade and ppl

You need to find some real gunboats.

Using video game graphics does not accuracy ensure

To suppress slave trade

And that's why we had such the biggest empire the world has ever er seen. We were sharp, intelligent. , brave and utterly ruthless.

There was no mention of the Maxim machine gun. It was stated to have slaughtered thousands of Jihadis.

Good grief, what's with the galleon?

This story is told by the occupier 😂 It was happy ending when the black worries hanged lord Gordon and left his dangling out side the palace in Khartoum.

feast for the buzzards

Makes one appreciate where Old Sir Winston picked up his bulldogged attitude he still displayed against the Nazis! Churchill was instrumental in Britian's role with the Allies to defeat the evil Axis!

"Lootenant"?

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Hmmm…British artillerymen in Napoleonic Era uniforms???

2:19 WTF is that! Surely you know the British gunboats of 1898 were more advanced than that thing. They were paddle steamers and did not use, old fashioned, muzzle loaded, canons.

R.I.P To The Mahdist Soldiers Who Died Fighting Bravely For Their Homeland

B army had more Africans than yts😂men

British river boat is about 150yrs. out of date. Napoleonic era ship.British artillery uniforms like wise from the Napoleonic era as well Uniforms for British lancers Out of date or inappropriate rather "dress" uniforms from napoleonic period. By 1898 Khaki was standard for all branches of the army in colonial service artillery, cavalry etc. by 1898 British artillery were breach loaded

There Were French Artillery. Bro What 💀