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Omdurman

noun

A city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum.

A battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese. Synonym: battle of Omdurman.

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"Omdurman" Quotes from Famous Books

... has made up for her defects of position as regards Egypt by four great strokes—the triumph of her great admiral, the purchase of Ismail's canal shares, the repression of Arabi's revolt, and Lord Kitchener's victory at Omdurman. The present writer has not refrained from sharp criticism on British policy in the period 1870-1900; and the Egyptian policy of the Cabinets of Queen Victoria has been at times open to grave censure; but, on the whole, it has come out well, thanks to the ability of individuals to supply ...

— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... enormous also, and during those ten days they sacrificed themselves with a kind of Oriental valour, such as heaped the fields of Omdurman with Soudanese. The Kaiser was the new Mahdi for whom men died in masses, going with fatalistic resignation to inevitable death. After a lull for burning and burial, for the refilling of great gaps in regiments and divisions, the enemy moved against us with new masses, but again death awaited ...

— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs

Words linked to "Omdurman" : metropolis, pitched battle, Republic of the Sudan, urban center, Soudan, city, Sudan