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Updated: May 11, 2025
The Hadendowas, silently and unseen, had occupied the higher ground on the north, east, and south.
The Guards had met a fresh rush of the Hadendowas, and had blown back the tribesmen with a volley, and the cavalry had ridden over another stream of them, as they welled out of the gully. A litter of hamstrung horses, and haggled men behind them, showed that a spearman on his face among the bushes can show some sport to the man who charges him.
Later on was fought the battle of Tamai against Osman Digna, during which a body of Arabs rushed the British guns and broke up the formation of their square. The British were on the point of defeat, but they managed to recover the lost guns, and scatter the Hadendowas. General Gordon's situation was now extremely critical.
The three chieftains still lingered upon the knoll, looking down with hungry eyes and compressed lips at the dark steel-tipped patch. "They are slower to start than the men of Egypt," the Sheik of the Hadendowas growled in his beard. "Slower also to go back, perchance, my brother," murmured the dervish. "And yet they are not many 3,000 at the most."
Fenshawe's optimism in the matter of a night attack by the Hadendowas, because Irene was there and who could hope to shield her beyond risk of accident when long-range rifles were sniping the camp? Alfieri's letter was civil and apologetic.
"What's that ye say?" cried Connor, as the men stood to their arms. "Looked as if the bloomin' hontray was with the Subadar, but the Hadendowas 'as the honour to hinvite sweet William!" "Murther uv man look look, ye Berkshire boar! The Bengals is breakin' line!"
They had horses and camels, and upon the best of them they decamped. Several of the notorious Osman Digna's tribal retainers were caught. These wretched Hadendowas were, I was told, glad to be permitted subsequently to return to their own country. Over 300 Abyssinians were amongst our prisoners. They had volunteered or been coerced into joining the dervish ranks.
Sentiment is not an English failing, but the Hussar captain raised his hilt in a salute as he rode past the blood-soaked ring. The British general sent home dispatches to his Government, and so did the chief of the Hadendowas, though the style and manner differed somewhat in each.
Sinkitat had fallen on February 8th, and to protect Tokar and Suakin they landed four thousand men and fought a fierce battle with nine thousand Hadendowas at El Teb February 28, 1884. The Egyptian garrison of Tokar, when the British army arrived, was found to have compromised with the Mahdists.
At last he heard the shuffling of camels' feet and the mutterings of men. The Hadendowas were crossing the river bed. "Stop!" he shouted, in Arabic. "You die otherwise!" There was an instant silence. They were evidently not prepared for this bold challenge.
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