2-716-572 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Lord Kitchener's Conquest of the Soudan, 1896-98: Mahmaud, the Khalifa's Chief Lieutenant, Taken Captive after the Battle of Atbara', (1901). Episode during the Second Sudan War. Major-General Sir Herbert Kitchener, sirdar or commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Army, led an an Anglo-Egyptian expeditionary force along the Upper Nile. Emir Mahmud Ahmad, commander of Sudanese Dervishes, was captured by the British after the Battle of Atbara, fought on the banks of the River Atbara. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]