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Naval brigades in the South African War, 1899-1900
T. T. Jeans, 1901
Named on the page for Battle of Omdurman.
machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.
draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.
Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
2 September 1898
Battle of Omdurman
STILL POTTERING. 205
But it is hard to hit a moving body. Many who took part in the battle of Omdurman will remember how a single Emir on a scare- crow of a horse galloped unscathed along the whole length of the British division advancing round the base of Jebel Surgham, though every man in the firing-line did his best to bring him down. Similarly the Intelligence officer braved the gauntlet, and reached tem- porary security round the base of the Tiger's hillock without harm. There was no time to waste. The Tiger was down to his horse and mounted almost before his officer realised he was safe.
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