The Battle of Omdurman 1898 | The Charge Churchill Survived

The Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898. On a plain outside Omdurman in Sudan, around 50,000 men of the Khalifa's army advanced on Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian force of about 26,000. By midday the Mahdist state's army had been broken, and a 23-year-old Winston Churchill had ridden in one of the last great cavalry charges of the British Army. In this video: • Why Kitchener built a railway across the desert to reach Omdurman • The Mahdist assault on the British and Egyptian lines • The charge of the 21st Lancers, and how Churchill survived it • MacDonald's brigade and the second attack • Why Omdurman worked, and what it pointed to in 1914 Known in Sudan as the Battle of Karari. Watch next: The Battle of Ulundi 1879 → https://youtu.be/VqSp_49iu1A The Battle of Isandlwana 1879 → https://youtu.be/aorX0gEcI0c Sources: Winston S. Churchill, The River War (1899) G. W. Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartum (1898) Philip Ziegler, Omdurman (1973) National Army Museum #Omdurman #Churchill #BritishHistory #MilitaryHistory #Sudan