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Hicks Expedition

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Shaykan · Kordofan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Annihilation of William Hicks's Egyptian army at the Battle of El Obeid (Shaykan), the worst British-led defeat in Sudan.

Belligerents2

Khedivate of Egypt
Mahdist State

ON THE MAPKhedivate of Egypt

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Hicks Expedition (1883). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/hicks-expedition · Sources & methodology