2-979-829 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Battle of Omdurman: MacDonald's Brigade Repelling the Dervish Onslaught', c1900. Scene from the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan. '[Hector] Macdonald was soon hotly engaged, but his stubborn negroes held their own and repelled the onslaught'. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne]