The dervishes' last charge: the chief battle was at omdurman, across the nile from khartoum. The english army was led by sir herbert kitchener. The dervishes, thirty thousand strong, instead of waiting behind the walls of omdurman, rushed fiercely out to the attack. Thrice at least in earlier years they had charged egyptian armies thus, and annihilated them. But now the british fire, from cannon and rifle combined, was too deadly. Whole columns of dervishes were wiped out without ever reaching the british line. In their last attack, here pictured, a white flag in front was seen to fall by actual count sixteen times. And each time another warrior snatched it from the fallen one and bore it onward. Identifier: storyofgreatestn01elli (find matches)
title: the story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
year: 1913 (1910s)
authors: ellis, edward sylvester, 1840-1916 horne, charles f. (charles francis), 1870-1942
subjects: world history
publisher: new york: niglutsch
contributing library: university of california libraries
digitizing sponsor: msn. Date: 1913.
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