Permanent historical factsheet

Battle of Atbara

Great Britain · Warfare / Sudan War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records
1898Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1898

Horatio Herbert Kitchener Khartoum8 April 1898

Atbara · Warfare / Sudan War

Horatio Kitchener defeats the Khalifa, leader of the dervishes in Sudan, at the Battle of Atbara. Angloian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese

Names involved

Horatio Herbert Kitchener Khartoum

Provenance

This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.