3-086-178 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Soudan Advance: the Seaforth Highlanders forcing Mahmud's Zareba in the Battle of Atbara, 1898. 'From a Sketch by Captain Sir Henry S. Rawlinson, Bart., Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General to the Sirdar...Illustration of Sir Herbert Kitchener's brilliant victory over the Dervishes on the Atbara on April 8, a victory which is generally thought to mean the speedy extinction of the Dervish dominion in the Soudan and the peaceful settlement of the whole valley of the Upper Nile and the Erythrean frontier territory. In this splendidly effective attack upon Mahmud's entrenched position, the Sirdar's force...had to deal with an enemy who was at first protected...by a strong zareba encircling the whole camp. After a fierce bombardment, however, the attacking troops...stormed the Dervish position at the point of the bayonet in the face of a fierce fire from the entrenched enemy. To the 10th Soudanese Battalion fell the honour of taking Mahmud prisoner. The haughty Dervish chief seems to have lost heart over the constant desertions from his army that had preceded this final stand, or else to have been cowed by the...Anglo-Egyptian force, for he remained underground throughout the storming of his position, and