hilgi

Updated: May 22, 2025

Indeed, it appeared that numbers of the runaways had settled down at New Hilgi, and were attempting to cultivate. As for the four or five thousand dervish cavalry that Mahmoud had with him, they also never returned to Omdurman. Quite probably they made their way back to their original homes in small bands, rightly believing that Mahdism was doomed.

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