3-086-292 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Soudan Advance - the Battle of Atbara: the Cameron Highlanders firing..., 1898. '...over the enemy's Zareba, and the Seaforth Highlanders charging through the openings. Facsimile of a Sketch by Corporal Farquharson, C. Company, 1st Seaforth Highlanders. This Sketch shows so much artistic talent that we reproduce it in facsimile.' The Battle of Atbara also known as the Battle of the Atbara River took place during the Mahdist War. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Mahdists on the banks of the River Atbara. The battle proved to be the turning point in the reconquest of Sudan by the British and Egyptian coalition. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.