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Updated: June 10, 2025

One of the smart things done by the Sirdar, which served to show that he had closely knit all the ends of the new frontier lines together, was to bring troops up from the Dongola province and the Red Sea Littoral, to swell the strength of his army in the field. The 5th Egyptian battalion under Colonel Abd El Borham marched across from Suakin to Berber in eighteen days.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan