• What Happened At  The Battle of Omdur...   Charge of the 21st Lancers at the battle of Omdurman in 1898 was one of the last great cavalry charges by the British army.
Amongst the men charging the Mahdists was a young Winston Churchill.

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This is the story of Winston Churchill's cavalry charge with the 21st Lancers at the battle of Omdurman.

What should have been a routine cavalry charge against infantry was instead an ambush.
Waiting for the 400 British were over 2,000 Mahdist warriors.

In two frantic minutes of fighting, nearly a fifth of the men with Churchill were killed or wounded as were third of their horses.
Three Victoria Crosses were earned for acts of bravery as soldiers desperately went to the aid of their unseated comrades.


When was the Battle of Omdurman? 2nd September 1898
Where was the Battle of Omdurman? Sudan
Who fought the battle of Omdurman? The battle was between the supporters of the Mahdi's successor (the Khalifa) and a British-Egyptian army under General Herbert Kitchener.
What were the casualties in the charge of the 21st lancers? they had lost 21 men dead and 50 wounded.
119 (nearly a third of their horses) were also killed our injured.
Mahdist loses are not known.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Invasion of Sudan
1:37 Young Winston
2:49 21st Lancers
4:08 March on Omdurman
5:09 Battle of Omdurman
6:06 Charge of the 21st Lancers
8:59 Ambush
11:21 Churchill Fighting
13:33 Casualties
15:18 The Legendary Charge
16:24 Survivor's stories

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