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Colonial Battles (2), the Machine-Gun Massacre in Sudan in 1898

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On 2 September 1898, a bloody battle between 25000 British and 60000 Sudanese warriors was fought by Omdurman. An article by Eric Laffitte The Battlefield Plan of Omdurman. "The most remarkable triumph ever won by the weapons of science over the barbarians" (Winston Churchill, war correspondent). It was well in Omdurman, a town lost in the Sudanese desert, that at the end of the 19th century, the war was about to change its face definitively to …
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On 2 September 1898, a bloody battle between 25000 British and 60000 Sudanese warriors was fought by Omdurman. An article by Eric Laffitte The Battlefield Plan of Omdurman. "The most remarkable triumph ever won by the weapons of science over the barbarians" (Winston Churchill, war correspondent). It was well in Omdurman, a town lost in the Sudanese desert, that at the end of the 19th century, the war was about to change its face definitively to …

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