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Omdurman

noun
1.
A city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum.
2.
A battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese.  Synonym: battle of Omdurman.





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... set foot on Mother Earth again. I think it was that night, if not the next, a Saturday night, that we received a message from the headquarters of the Duke telling us of the defeat of the Khalifa at Omdurman by the forces in Egypt under Kitchener. It was ...
— The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon • Jose Maria Gordon


Words linked to "Omdurman" :   city, Sudan, urban center, battle of Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan, Soudan, metropolis, pitched battle


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