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    The Battle of Abu Klea, or the Battle of Abu Tulayh took place between 16 and 18 January 1885, at Abu Klea, Sudan, between the British Desert Column and...
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    176 (Abu Klea) Battery Royal Artillery is the junior currently-existent regular battery of the Royal Artillery. Its name is pronounced "One Seven Six"...
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  • New Mexico KLEA-FM (101.7 MHz), a defunct radio station (101.7 FM) formerly licensed to serve Lovington, New Mexico Battle of Abu Klea This disambiguation...
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    Battle of Abu Klea, between the British and the Mahdists. The British force under General Sir Herbert Stewart numbered 1,200 while a large number of Mahdists...
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    breaking up in battle. Specific incidents that this expression may refer to are all in the Mahdist War in the Sudan: At the Battle of Abu Klea: the breach...
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    wounds received at the Battle of Abu Klea in January 1885. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the fifth viscount. As of 2013[update] the title is...
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    the 1884–85 campaign. The British infantry square was broken in the battle of Abu Klea, and the British are forced to retreat. Critics complained the film...
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    Mahdist War (category Wars involving the states and peoples of Africa)
    defeating the Mahdists at the Battle of Abu Klea on 17 January 1885, the column arrived within sight of Khartoum at the end of January, only to find they...
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    Frederick Burnaby (category People from the Borough of Melton)
    Letter of 27 April 1885, to c/o Major Lord Arthur Somerset, who commanded The Blues, HCM, AB 2659 White-Spunner, p.405 "The Battle of Abu Klea of the Sudan...
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  • on 13 March 1884, and the second was on 17 January 1885 during the Battle of Abu Klea (when the square was badly broken, though thereafter promptly reformed)...
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    Frank Rhodes (British Army officer) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    the battles of El Teb and Tamai. At the Battle of Abu Klea, he distinguished himself when he had several horses shot from under him in the course of the...
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    attacked by the Hadendoa Beja, or "Fuzzy Wuzzies", twice, first at the Battle of Abu Klea and two days later closer to Metemma. Twice the British square held...
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    el-Kebir". British Battles. Retrieved 6 September 2016. "Battle of Abu Klea". British Battles. Retrieved 6 September 2016. "19th Hussars". Anglo-Boer War...
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    Infantry square (category Tactical formations of the Napoleonic Wars)
    Rudyard Kipling's poem "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" refers to two battles in the Mahdist War, Tamai in 1884 and Abu Klea in 1885, in which infantry squares were used by...
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  • Awadia and Fadnia tribes (category Tribes of Sudan)
    classed as Ja'alin. They own numbers of horses and cattle, the former of the black Dongola breed. At the battle of Abu Klea (17 January 1885) they were conspicuous...
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    they advanced toward Mettema, the Desert Column was attacked at the Battle of Abu Klea on 17 January. Although the Mahdists managed to break their infantry...
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  • March 1884 Battle of Tamai 13 March 1884 – 26 January 1885 Siege of Khartoum 17 January 1885 Battle of Abu Klea 10 February 1885 Battle of Kirbekan 22 March...
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  • II Battle of Abukir – 1799 – French Revolution Battle of Abu Klea – 1885 – Mahdist War Battle of Aclea – 851 – Viking invasions of England Battle of Acragas...
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    towards the end of December, the small "Desert Column" reaching Metemma on 20 January 1885, fighting the Battle of Abu Klea on 18 January and Abu Kru (or Gubat)...
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    Gardner gun (category Machine guns of the United Kingdom)
    delayed because of opposition from the Royal Artillery. It saw action in the Mahdist War (in Sudan), notably at the Battle of Abu Klea, where its mechanism...
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  • William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside. January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces. January 20 – American inventor...
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    the regiment also saw action at the Battle of Abu Klea in January 1885 during the Mahdist War. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899...
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    William Barnes Wollen (category Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours)
    Twickenham Stadium) The Battle of Abu Klea, 1885 (1896 – National Army Museum) Charge of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons at the Battle of Tournay (1897 – Royal...
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    Bayuda Desert (category Deserts of Sudan)
    Expedition saw the Battle of Abu Klea and the Battle Abu Kru. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bayuda Desert. Description of the Bayuda Desert Klemm...
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    C.E. Battle of Abu Klea March 22, 1885 C.E. Battle of Tofrek February 10, 1885 C.E. Battle of Kirbekan December 30, 1885 C.E. Battle of Ginnis December...
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    Henry Newbolt (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    and play the game!" The engagement mentioned in verse two is the Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan in January 1885 during the unsuccessful expedition to rescue...
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  • reported on the deadly Battle of Abu Klea. Herbert was a military veteran and had been previously decorated for his service at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, Egypt...
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  • January 17 (redirect from 17th of January)
    Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. 1893 – Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii...
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    British Army during the Victorian Era (category 19th-century history of the British Army)
    possibilities of gaining commissions became increasingly rare. In 1845, the army of Sir Hugh Gough lost so many officers during the Battle of Ferozeshah...
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    Royal Sussex Regiment (category Regiments of the British Army in World War I)
    The battalion took part in the Battle of Abu Klea in January 1885 when Muhammad Ahmad was defeated. After a couple of years back in England, the battalion...
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