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Date September 18, 1898
Location Sudan
Participants France • United Kingdom

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Key People

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
British field marshal
Delcassé, Théophile
Théophile Delcassé
French statesman
Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Jean-Baptiste Marchand, detail from a portrait by Jacques-Fernand Humbert; in the National Museum of African and Oceanian Arts, Paris
Jean-Baptiste Marchand
French soldier and explorer