Portrait of Colonel R. H. Martin, who led the 21st Lancers into the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan, 1898. Published circa 1904. The Battle of Omdurman was fought during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan between a British–Egyptian expeditionary force commanded by British Commander-in-Chief (sirdar) major general Horatio Herbert Kitchener and a Sudanese army of the Mahdist State, led by Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (the Khalifa), the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad.

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Location: England
Photo credit: © Lakeview Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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