What Happened At The Battle Of Atbara, Sudan 1898

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The Battle of Atbara, fought in Sudan in 1898 was a decisive victory for British general, Herbert Kitchener, and his joint Egyptian-British army over the Mahdists.
It cleared the way for his advance, and final showdown with the Mahdi's successor, at the battle of Omdurman.
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The Battle of Atbara fought between 10,000 British, Egyptian and Sudanese troops and 15,000 mahdists in 1898 was a decisive victory for General Herbert Kitchener.
With the completion of that 220 mile railway through the harsh Nubian desert, Kitchener was finally able to bring British troops, including the Cameron and Seaforth Highlanders and the Warwickshire and Lincolnshire regiments to join his Egyptian and Sudanese army advancing against the Mahdi's successor, the Khalifa.
In response the Khalifa sent a 15,000-strong army under his cousin, Mahmoud, and the veteran warrior, Osman Digna, to confront him at Atbara (just east of the Nile).
The Mahdist army established a fortified position forcing Kitchener into a risky frontal assault.
His attack on Good Friday, the 8th April 1898, resulted in a decisive victory with over 3,000 Mahdists killed and 4,000 (including their commander) captured.
His success at the battle of Atbara, cleared the way for Kitchener to march towards the Khalifa's main army at Omdurman.
It was a battle that featured two future First World War commanders, Douglas Haig and David Beatty, and for fans of "Dad's Army" it also featured a Corporal Jones.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:17 Summary
1:27 Sudan 1898
3:55 Mahdist Strategy
5:55 Change In Mahdist Strategy
6:59 Kitchener Worried
8:17 Night Advance
8:59 Kitchener's Army
10:11 Artillery Bombardment
11:29 Infantry Advance
12:52 Battle Of Atbara
14:31 Casualties
15:13 Kitchener Victorious
16:12 Next Stop Omdurman
Sources used to produce this video included:
"Khartoum" - Michael Asher
"The Scramble For Africa" - Thomas Packenham
"Queen Victoria's Little Wars" - Byron Farwell
"The River War" - Winston Churchill
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
British Battles.com
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@Spyros_2001 5 ай бұрын

Actually Lance-corporal Jones, in Dads army, mentions a similar incident with the specific battle. In the episode "Sgt - Save My Boy!", he says that: "When the fazywazies discovered where our headquarters was, we had to move to an elsewhere. And when they came at us with their great weapons to the place where we wasn’t, we fired on them from the place where we was. Then, we went in with the cold steel, and they couldn’t abide that. They didn’t like it up 'em! They don't like it up 'em!" I like that

@mfranssens 5 ай бұрын

Yes, yes. That’s quite enough Jones. But they don’t like it up em sir. Wilson? Keep your eye on Jones.

@matthewcharles5867 5 ай бұрын

Wouldn't of liked Jones axe either I expect.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

You might enjoy my video all about Lance Corporal Jones: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbKPeZZ2np2Xkok.html

@philiprufus4427 5 ай бұрын

Neither did the Bulgarians in World War 1 apparently, (Balken Campaign), - according to my late mothers father. Nice fellows,some of our past soldiery !

@fredazcarate4818 5 ай бұрын

I was ill Sir but after viewing your video lecture on the Battle Of Atbara my spirit ross. Your narration brought to life a near forgotten incident of which many brave Sudanese troops , and their British counterparts and officers gave full measure against Mahdi's followers. Once again thank you for bringing a bit of joy too an elderly gentleman.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Dr Chris has arrived! 🤣

@fredazcarate4818 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap thank you for your prompt response!

@TIMSANDYSURF 5 ай бұрын

That was wonderful. Thank you.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@peterjones3557 5 ай бұрын

Again, an excellent presentation. Very interesting.

@philiprufus4427 5 ай бұрын

Yes first class stuff,been reading books and watching films about Britains Armies and Auxies since I was a kid. Many of the family served,going back to The Boer War and both World Wars apparently. Both Army and Navy both sides,even had an Aunt in The R A F. To Blazes with wether its fashionable or not. Its Historical fact and Highly Interesting ! Thoroughly Enjoy All The Videos.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@wilsontheconqueror8101 5 ай бұрын

Well done! This time period of British military history. Doesn't get enough recognition. The age of Queen Victoria is what turned England 🇬🇧 then Britain into a world super power. Because of its Navy first but the British ability to assimilate colonials into its military system. Going all the way back to the Union of Scotland & England,& Wales. By WW1 Germany & France & later Belgium were playing catch up to Britain's intercontinental expansion. The only other European Monarchy that had a political & military system larger would have been the Romanovs of Imperial Russia. But they had such a problem domestically & internal rebellions that would plague it into the 20th century. Much like the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Watching from the States & wishing U HAPPY New Year!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for your interesting feedback.

@thomasgumersell9607 5 ай бұрын

I enjoyed your video on this particular British Victory. Thank you for presenting such historical battles. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@janlindtner305 5 ай бұрын

Good lecture Chris👍👍👍

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thank you! 👍

@alilaal3284 5 ай бұрын

As usual, I enjoyed your program. Thank you. 👏👏👏

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind comment

@rtsesmelis 5 ай бұрын

Great video, as always. Love them all. Thanks, man!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching

@Timrath 5 ай бұрын

14:20 "...Victorian officers were willing to give their lives..." One aspect of warfare that is often misunderstood, is the fact that officers always tended to suffer high numbers of casualties, throughout all eras of human history and across all cultures. It is only the very highest ranks who enjoyed greater safety as technology progressed. In fact, captains and lieutenants often have a much higher chance of getting killed or wounded than enlisted soldiers. The image of the callous and cowardly officer who sends his men to die while he hides in a bunker, is a malicious myth.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Agree.

@ronalddunne3413 5 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, the true masters of war, those who profit financially or politically and pull the strings never suffer the rigors of fighting, killing, or death. We should remember that it was KITCHENER who invented the CONCENTRATION CAMP in South Afrika to imprison the families of Dutch Boer farmers resisting the avaricious aggression of the British Empire trying to take their lands. Many died of starvation, diseases, and poor living conditions. I can't imagine that he treated the black Sudanese fuzzie wuzzies any better, as there were no influential people looking out for the interests of the captured Mahdi' followers.

@jonburgess3614 5 ай бұрын

The motto of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is ‘To Serve To Lead’. Leadership is the vital factor in winning any battle.

@theflyingfool 5 ай бұрын

Excellent video thanks Chris!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@jon9021 5 ай бұрын

Another splendid episode!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching

@andrewsteele7663 5 ай бұрын

Good afternoon, Chris, another cracking telling. My bedside book reading pile just got higher. Cheers, love your channel.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Glad you’re enjoying and thank you for your support. Please make sure you subscribe, if you haven’t already

@davidberlanny3308 5 ай бұрын

Thankyou Chris, very interesting stories and some great contributions form your followers too. All the best!!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

As you can tell by me answering your comment, I’d really do read every comment and try to respond. Obviously the wacky ones I remove!

@derekp2674 5 ай бұрын

Really interesting, thanks Chris.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@FranciscoPreira 5 ай бұрын

Another cool presentation, an exellent augur for this new year, thank you for sharing. I wish you and your family a great year.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Very kind of you, thanks.

@brianivey73 5 ай бұрын

Love it sir, splendid video as always!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

@robinng9326 5 ай бұрын

Great Video!!! Always love hearing stories during the late Victorian Era. I would love to see you cover the Childers Reform of 1881 since it created many of Britains famous regiments. Another would be Britain’s ww1 Middle East campaign. Something that is always overshadowed by the Western Front.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Childers Reform is an interesting suggestion. I plan to cover some of the non-Western Front theatres in WW1 later this year.

@SmokinLoon5150 5 ай бұрын

Bravo. Excellent presentation.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@martinalarcon3108 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great program 😮very informal

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@user-se7mf9ee5c 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant rendition,thankyou.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

@martinb1121 5 ай бұрын

Thank God for Britain and the British!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment.

@jerrymacklow1452 5 ай бұрын

I have been enjoying your series on the Sudan wars very much. Previously, my only knowledge of these came from Flashman's adventures. Thanks

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I’m glad you’re enjoying these videos. Although in fairness, Flashman is a fun source of history, too.

@phillipgraves248 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate your Sudan series, having lived in Khartoum in the 1990's and seeing many places you describe, I enjoy your in depth analysis of this crucial conflict.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I’m glad you’ve all enjoying the videos. Thanks for your support.

@neilfoddering921 5 ай бұрын

My great-great uncle, Colour Sergeant Thomas Edward Mackenzie, served with the Cameron Highlanders and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions at the battles of the Atbara and Omdurman. During the 1980s and early 90s I owned (and used) the .360 Number 5 Lancaster Oval Bore sporting rifle which had been owned by Captain Charles Findlay of the Camerons. Captain Findlay was killed in the attack on the Zariba at the Atbara. He was recently married, and his young bride was expecting their first child when Findlay was killed. I assume that the rifle was sold to a fellow officer on his death (it was customary to sell off the deceased’s personal effects to raise money for his bereaved family). I eventually tracked down Captain Findlay’s grandson and returned the rifle to the family. If my memory serves, the illustration in your video of the Camerons officer attacking the Zariba with sword in hand represents Captain Findlay. Findlay was exceptionally tall (getting on for 6’ 6”, if I remember correctly) and must have drawn the attention of the enemy. He was speared twice and shot.

@paulmanson253 5 ай бұрын

I had no idea Lancaster made rifles as well. Ian over at Forgotten Weapons covered examples of the pistols, fascinating things. Was the rifle bolt action ?

@neilfoddering921 5 ай бұрын

@@paulmanson253 No, it was a single shot hammer rifle, which opened like a conventional shotgun. This was a relatively low-powered, lightweight weapon, and this type of rifle in variious calibres was generally used for small game. They were generally known as “Rook and Rabbit” rifles, usually sortened to “Rook Rifles”. I also owned a Lancaster Oval Bore rifle in .380. Both this and the .360 were pistol rounds, although some of these rifles had smaller-calibre rounds designed specifically for them. I used to reload for the .360 Number 5 using 9mm Parabellum lead pistol bullets and .38 Special brass. It was accurate at the range for which it was practical to use it for small game. I did read that a woman who lived off-grid in a remote part of Enlgand used a Rook Rifle to shoot deer for meat, but it was certainly illegal to do so when I owned the rifles, due to their low power. They were popular enough in the latter half of the 1800s for most of the major gunmakers to offer them for sale in various grades from plain to luxurious, and some even made double-barrelled Rook and Rabbit rifles. Apart from those made by Lancaster, they had conventional grooved rifling. The ones I owned were about the size and weight of a .410 shotgun. The reason that rifles of this type were referred to as “Rook and Rabbit” is self-explanatory as far as rabbits are concerned; the “Rook” part of the name derives from their intended use for shooting young, unfledged rooks from the branches of trees. Rook pie seems to have been fairly popular at the time these rifles were in vogue, but I can’t say that it appeals to me, let alone the safety aspect of firing a rifle up into a tree without a safe backstop in case of a miss. I read of two small boys who were sitting on a fence, when one suddenly fell off, dead, for no immediately apparent reason. It was found that he had been hit in the head by a falling bullet from a person who had been shooting rooks with a small calibre rifle several hundred yards away - a fluke accident, but all too real a tragedy.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing that amazing personal connection to the battle. I appreciate the detail I’ve gone into

@alenmcculloch7823 4 ай бұрын

Today I visited a Church in Dumbarton, Scotland, for the first time, because I know my late grandmother worshipped there. St Augustine's Episcopal Church on the High St. I had no idea that the Church contains a most impressive memorial to Capt Findlay, who was a member of that Church. I recognised misname straight away, as I sometimes pass the impressive Cameron Highlanders memorial outside Inverness Railway Station.

@alenmcculloch7823 4 ай бұрын

I recognised his name straight away.

@silverback414 5 ай бұрын

Another enthralling and educational video. Here's something a little different. How about something on the foreign brigades in the Spanish civil war or, how about the resistance of Malta during WW2?

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion, and I will add them to my list which is growing longer and longer thanks to my viewers here on KZfaq

@jonathankennedy4779 5 ай бұрын

New subscriber. 💯💯💯

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Many thanks for your support. Appreciate it.

@p03saucez 5 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed that bit about Kitchener becoming proud and emotional by the enthusiasm of his victorious troops.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

He will similarly overwhelmed when he went to Gordon’s old Palace in Khartoum

@p03saucez 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Looking forward to your video covering that!

@billevans7936 5 ай бұрын

❤, this works....

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

The love of my life is not impressed that I have spent all of Sunday working on my videos!

@GordonHouston-Smith 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap My late wife was always grateful I was out of the way!

@Mikatus1 5 ай бұрын

⁠thanks for posting two videos on one day!😀

@allandavis8201 5 ай бұрын

Watching how the real story of the campaign is very interesting and very informative to a confirmed air battle historian (armchair, not expert), but it brings the film “The Way Ahead” to mind (if you have seen it you will know what I am on about, if not I highly recommend it to you all), in the opening scenes and later on two “old soldiers” from the Chelsea Pensioners talk about how they fought in this campaign and, if memory serves, specifically the battle of Omdurman, forming square, bayonets gleaming and buttons polished, but then I am looking at the supporting photographs that are being shown after this battle and the soldiers, especially the British 🇬🇧 look 👀 far from the standard the two old soldiers stated, but tbh those of us who have served in the desert know how difficult it is to keep standards up, and of course we “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story” Thanks for sharing this historic battle with us all, I never thought I would enjoy recounting of “Grunts” historical events, but I am glad to say I do now, I like the way the information is presented and the visual supporting photographs etc are a great way to let us form a picture of the events in our minds eye 👁️. Thanks again your research and knowledge is fantastic. P.S Subscribed (again, for some reason it was not showing me as subscribed). 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇮🇱

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your resubscribe and I am pleased that you enjoyed this video. I’ve never served in the desert I have travelled through it in Sudan and the dust gets everywhere.

@erikM64 5 ай бұрын

To think that David Beatty, later first Sea Lord of Tha Admiriality and of Skagerak fame, was present at Atbara... As of usual, The History Chap brings us a Tour de Force with a comprehensive accoiunt of the Sudanese campain, meticulously detailed...100 % quality rating, should win the quality content creator of the year award, anywhere on the KZfaq... You can't get British Military History explained any better than this...

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your very kind comment

@Augh98-nt2zn 5 ай бұрын

I'm reading the book you recommended, Warriors in Scarlet. The chapters about New Zealand are very interesting. Maybe videos about that campaign?

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed the book. The New Zealand wars were a revelation and I will cover them in my future videos. Just need to get my head around some of those pronunciations!

@christianifechukwu9865 4 ай бұрын

I love the way you tell every story in your own voice bringing obscure facts and information to light and making it very real and relatable. I will come after you if you ever decide to use AI-generated voice...

@TheHistoryChap 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment & thanks for watching my video

@formwiz7096 5 ай бұрын

Remember Winston's charge from the movie. Can't wait to see it.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I released it just under an hour ago

@formwiz7096 5 ай бұрын

You have been a busy little boy.@@TheHistoryChap

@rextucker3184 5 ай бұрын

MacDonald's depleted Sudanese battalions were replenished by defectors who had fought them and killed their friends. I guess a man's got to be realistic about things, in times of war.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Indeed.

@loucorreia6142 5 ай бұрын

You could cover G.A. Henty, who was a newspaper correspondent during Victoria’s reign,witnessing many of the campaigns you’ve discussed, and later going on to write a series of historical fiction books targeted to British boys of the period.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for that suggestion. I will add to my ever-growing list for future talks.

@ludwigderzanker9767 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Chris for fine presentation today! Were the Maxim machine guns a russian brand? All the best from Ludwig

@neilfoddering921 5 ай бұрын

The Maxim machine guns were the invention of Hiram Maxim, an American-born naturalised British citizen.The Germans used Maxims during the First World War, and the Russians were still using them in the Second World War.

@ludwigderzanker9767 5 ай бұрын

@@neilfoddering921thank you very much for that information! Ludwig

@neilfoddering921 5 ай бұрын

@@ludwigderzanker9767 Bitte schön!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I’m not sure which brand they actually were. I wouldn’t have thought they were Russian only because Britain’s relationship with Russia at this moment in time was not particularly friendly.

@HonestJohnstories-lv7sb 5 ай бұрын

The importance of using railways to transport troops had also led to the Prussian army being able to defeat the French in 1870

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Very good point. Thanks for posting.

@Jonnykrav71 5 ай бұрын

I enjoyed your video very much. Personally I’m interested in weapons and how they affect a battle. I would have liked you to have mentioned what rifles the British army were using and if the bolt action magazine fed rifles were a big factor over the single shot ( if that was what was used) in the 1885 campaign. I imagine they were but I would like it to have been covered.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Many thanks for watching my video, and for sharing your thoughts on how it could have been improved

@indigohammer5732 5 ай бұрын

The Egyptian and Sudanese troops under British control were generally issued with 455/577 Martini Henry Rifles. The British would have used Lee Enfield rifles with the nasty MK III ammuntion

@lf2417 5 ай бұрын

British military history is always interesting for sure

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Every time I think I’ve exhausted a subject area, more interesting material pops up

@joeblogs4701 5 ай бұрын

We used to live in Atbara Road, Teddington!!!!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Funny how all these names pop up and most folk haven't got a clue as to the story behind the road names. A bit like Grenfell Tower in London.

@DirtyMikeandTheBoys69 5 ай бұрын

You should check out some of the wars fought in New Zealand. Very interesting conflicts between the Maori and British-NZ colonials.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Getting a lot of requests for them. I just need to get my head around the pronunciation of some of the Maori words.

@DirtyMikeandTheBoys69 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap best of luck. Also, I think a video on the differences of Vietnam and Malaysia wouldn't hurt either. A lot of folks within the Anglo sphere have this idea that the conflicts are entirely relatable and that what worked in one might work in another.

@garymoore3159 5 ай бұрын

This is a new bit of history but I would love to hear anything about the Highland Light Infantry. My father was an engineer for the HLI. They were mobbed up near Camrose Alberta at the start of WW2. They were then shipped off to Edinburgh where the trained..and trained.....and trained. Then, prior to them shipping out for D-Day, they had 10 days?? anyway, it was long enough. He met a singer in a bar (my mother). I know very little about the campaigns they were in. They were selected to go in with initial wave, mostly because they were green. veterans would know better than to charge German positions. Anyway, they went right thru to occupy Berlin. Can you find out anything about these young men? I wrote to the Canadian Government 6 years ago for his military record. Never heard back... Many thanks! Love your story telling!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Many thanks for watching my videos and for your support. I will add your suggestion to my list for future productions, although I don’t know very much about this particular subject.

@shermangriffin4668 5 ай бұрын

Haaaa they were still using the ramp loading Martini-Henry. I love that rifle. I hope to have an authentic 1879 or 80 here soon.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

The Egyptian army were using it, but the British Army had been upgraded to the Lee Metford.

@londonbudgetgardner5205 5 ай бұрын

An excellent video A very well executed battle plan (Could’ve gone wrong) You always wonder if Haigh and Beatty remembered that almost easy victory at Jutland and Somme.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I’ve never really thought about it until now. Yeah, look at the size of the battles that they were later involved with.

@jannarkiewicz633 5 ай бұрын

catching up

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy it

@aguadigger 5 ай бұрын

⭐️👍

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

👍

@tomtaylor6163 5 ай бұрын

As the Clash would say “ Caliph don’t like it….”

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Very droll. You’ve made my Friday morning!

@jonmeek3879 5 ай бұрын

Excellent story

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@aldosigmann419 5 ай бұрын

I say old stick a most excellent rendition!

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@user-fx9vb5jw7w 5 ай бұрын

Дякую!!!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

You are binge watching my channel. Thanks

@nathanappleby5342 5 ай бұрын

Kitchener did well. It is not surprising the highest casualties belonged to the commands of those who were fighters like MacDonald. The others did well too. Thank good ness that artillery officer intervened from the Khalifa's cousin being killed. It was devastating that 90% of that first company was wiped out and even more so their enemies were themselves wiped out completely but given what happened no surprise. Kitchener's campaign in Sudan from 1896-98 was one of the best colonial campaigns ever conducted and fought. It was of course at Omdurmann that the arrogant Mahdist commander's warning to Kitchener would prove fatally wrong and would thus end Islamic extremism in Sudan. Extremism must not be tolerated!

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Once more, a great and thoughtful post from you, Nathan. Some modern commentators tend to believe that the modest state was simply trying to stay independent. They missed the point that it was an Islamic fundamentalist state that wanted to spread its revolution across the Islamic world and beyond. The invaded Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia. They happily endorsed and practised slavery. The number of Sudanese in Kitchener army indicates that many of the population did not support that agenda.

@nathanappleby5342 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Good thing, one's beliefs should not be forced on others.

@jeffsmith2022 5 ай бұрын

Chris, how was it that the Mahdists were able to use 'captured British artillery with considerable effect'?...Who instructed them?...

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

They were actually using captured Egyptian artillery. They were demanded, or at least instructed by former Egyptian artillery captives.

@TheMartymar1976 5 ай бұрын

Wasn't Gatacre in command at the battle of Stormberg? A good night advance versus a not so good night advance...

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Yes, he was, and on that occasion, the night advance lead to disaster

@yomommaahotoo264 5 ай бұрын

What British battle killed the most Indians? This subject would be very interesting and exiting.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Goodness knows what the answer is. Possibly one of the walls with the Sikhs?

@invisibleray6987 5 ай бұрын

Kitchener was some general

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Much maligned by his political enemies in World War I

@QUISLINGG 5 ай бұрын

For some Reason changing Red Coats clothing effected British Cavalry and Royal Army

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment

@Muzafarmutada 2 күн бұрын

I am from atbara

@TheHistoryChap 2 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching my video.

@blainedunlap4242 5 ай бұрын

What resources or economic gains were derived from control of these regions. Why were they fighting?

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Watch my video about Charles Gordon.

@johnbrantley4174 5 ай бұрын

Was there a young Churchill there?

@johnbrantley4174 5 ай бұрын

Brain fog , he was there.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Young Churchill was at the battle of Omdurman but hasn’t arrived in time for the battle of Atbara.

@sheldonwheaton881 5 ай бұрын

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim Gun And they have not.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Certainly true in this campaign,

@ropeburnsrussell 5 ай бұрын

Have you done the Tibet campaign of 1903? I'm not quite sure that is the right date. That has always seemed like the last spasm of empire to me.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

I haven’t, but it is on my list for this year. Maybe I should call it “Battle on the roof of the world” , what do you think?

@ropeburnsrussell 5 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap that's a good title.

@user-dt8vy2yb3d 4 ай бұрын

It's a battle the British Army in Africa which fulfilling their destiny in the late 19th Century.

@TheHistoryChap 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video

@fortunatusnine2012 5 ай бұрын

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@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

@mfranssens 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant. It’s a pity these battles are not taught in schools. There is a lot of political nonsense dredged up when looking at history. A real shame because we can learn a lot.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

History is all about perspectives. Generally there are no rights or wrongs. Maybe that is what students should be taught.

@Dhintheman 2 ай бұрын

why were the British there in the first place?

@TheHistoryChap 2 ай бұрын

You need to watch some of my other videos for that

@musfikinsan3423 5 ай бұрын

Your vocabulary is so wide.I sometimes struggle to understand .English isn't my first language.I've heard some words in your videos first time .Such as ,"calamity."

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for your comment.

@davidmorgan3366 5 ай бұрын

The Brits win again.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Certainly on that occasion they did

@stevec7770 5 ай бұрын

You tube 🖕

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for taking time to give me a thumbs up.

@michaelnorman4685 5 ай бұрын

Having served in the mid 80s, I delight in the recounting of these battles, one of the reasons I joined up. We truly were the best. Sadly that's not the case anymore. The British army is virtually worthless as anything other than a last line of defence. Very sad.

@TheHistoryChap 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching my video and for taking the time to comment.