A lithographic print by A. Sutherland showing the early stages of the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898. The battle in the Sudan was between an Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese army and the Mahdist State. The former won the battle and then the Mahdist War in 1899.
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