Advance of the 9th and 10th Sudanese Battalions of the Egyptian Army at the Battle...

Major General Grenfel watching the advance of the 9th and 10th Sudanese Battalions of the Egyptian Army against the Dervishes at Toski, 3 August 1889. The battle took place near the Sudan-Egypt border at Toski on the River Nile. It was fought between Anglo-Egyptian forces and the Mahdist Sudanese who were keen to export their Islamic rising into Egypt. The engagement ended in defeat for the latter. Major B D A Donne, commander of the 10th Sudanese, is visible on a white pony in the centre to the left of a standard. Apart from the officers commanding the Egyptian and Sudanese units, the only British troops participating in the battle were a squadron of the 20th Hussars.