Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, 2 September 1898
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Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, 2 September 1898.
Oil on canvas by Edward Matthew Hale, 1899.
The charge of the 21st Lancers in September 1898 was one of the last full-scale cavalry charges of the British Army. The battle took place 6.4 km. (four miles) outside Omdurman, just north of Khartoum and marked the culmination of Major-General Sir Horatio Herbert (later Field Marshal, 1st Earl) Kitchener's campaign for the re-conquest of the Sudan, the 2nd Sudan War (1896-1898).
Oil on canvas by Edward Matthew Hale, 1899.
The charge of the 21st Lancers in September 1898 was one of the last full-scale cavalry charges of the British Army. The battle took place 6.4 km. (four miles) outside Omdurman, just north of Khartoum and marked the culmination of Major-General Sir Horatio Herbert (later Field Marshal, 1st Earl) Kitchener's campaign for the re-conquest of the Sudan, the 2nd Sudan War (1896-1898).
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27780
Accession No.
NAM. 1957-04-4-1
