tahra

Updated: May 25, 2025

The artillery now succeeded in silencing three of the five Dervish guns and in sinking the little Dervish steamer Tahra, while the infantry by a tremendous long-range fire drove the riflemen out of the palms.

Winston Churchill - The River War : An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

5 Steamers: The Dal, The Akasha, the Tahra, The Okma, the Kaibar The total strength of the Expeditionary Force amounted to 8,200 British and 17,600 Egyptian soldiers, with 44 guns and 20 Maxims on land, with 36 guns and 24 Maxims on the river, and with 2,469 horses, 896 mules, 3,524 camels, and 229 donkeys, besides followers and private animals.

Winston Churchill - The River War : An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan