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Battle of Atbara

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Atbara

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Kitchener's victory over Emir Mahmud at Atbara opened the Nile road to Omdurman.

Belligerents3

United Kingdom
Mahdist State
Khedivate of Egypt

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1900)Khedivate of Egypt

Conflict graph

PART OFMahdist War

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Atbara (1898). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-atbara · Sources & methodology