agaiga

Updated: May 12, 2025

Field-Marshal Sir J.L.A. Simmons, in a letter to the Times. On the 2nd September the army lay encamped at Agaiga on the Nile, a few miles only from Khartoum, having already come into touch with he Khalifa's outposts, the main body of whose army, some 40,000 or 50,000, had come out of Omdurman, and was intrenched between them and the city.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign