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Battle of Abu Klea

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Abu Klea · Bayuda Desert · Sudan

Estimated casualties

1.1K – 1.4Kestimated dead

Mahdist dead ~1,100; British losses ~76 killed.

SOURCEBritish accounts / Clodfelter

Fought 16-18 January 1885 between the British Desert Column of the Gordon Relief Expedition and Mahdist forces, in which the British square was briefly broken but held, during the failed attempt to relieve Khartoum.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Mahdist Sudan

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1880)

Conflict graph

PART OFMahdist War

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Abu Klea
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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