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Battle of Handoub

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Sudan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Handoub (1888), part of the British-Sudan Wars. United Kingdom, Sudanese forces defeated the Mahdiyya.

Belligerents3

United Kingdom
Sudanese forces
the Mahdiyya

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1880)

Conflict graph

PART OFMahdist War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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