Significant1896

Battle of Ferkeh

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Ferkeh · northern Sudan

Estimated casualties

800 – 1.0Kestimated dead

Roughly 800-1,000 Mahdists killed; Anglo-Egyptian losses very light.

SOURCEBritish accounts

On 7 June 1896 Kitchener's Egyptian army surprised and routed a Mahdist force at Ferkeh, the first significant action of the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan.

Belligerents2

Anglo-Egyptian forces
Mahdist Sudan

Conflict graph

PART OFMahdist War

Sources

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

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