WOTR Daily Newsletter: Sept. 2, 2022

Forthwith, the gunboats, the 32nd British Field Battery, and other guns from the zeriba opened on them. I was but 400 yards away, and with excellent glasses could almost see the faces of the Dervishes who met the fearful fire. About twenty shells struck them in the first minute. Some burst high in the air, others exactly in their faces Others, again, plunged into the sand and, exploding, dashed clouds of red dust, splinters, and bullets amid their ranks. The white banners toppled over in all directions.

~The Battle of Omdurman, fought in Sudan on this day in 1898, as described by Winston Churchill who served there as a lieutenant

Daily Newsletter: Sept. 2, 2022
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