Significant1884 – 1885 · 1 year

Nile Expedition (Gordon Relief)

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Abu Klea · Abu Kru · Korti

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Wolseley's overland and riverine expedition to relieve Gordon at Khartoum, arriving two days after the city's fall.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Mahdist State

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1880)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Nile Expedition (Gordon Relief) (1884 – 1885). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/nile-expedition-gordon-relief · Sources & methodology