El Teb, a halting-place in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan near Suakin on the west coast of the Red Sea, 9 m. southwest of the port of Trinkitat on the road to Tokar.

In mid-December 1883, the British Prime Minister William Gladstone ordered an evacuation of the Anglo-Egyptian forces in Sudan following a ferocious revolt of Mahdists, led by Muhammad Ahmad, against the British protectorate Egypt.[1]

At El Teb, on 4 February 1884, a heterogeneous force under General Valentine Baker, marching to the relief of the Egyptian garrison of Tokar, was completely routed by the Mahdists,[2] led by Osman Digna.[1]

The British response was to send forces under the command of Major-General Sir Gerald Graham V.C. from Egypt to Suakin. Graham's forces fought powerfully and defeated the Mahdists on 29 February 1884.[3]

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  1. 1 2 Eggenberger, David (8 March 2012). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. North Chelmsford: Courier Corporation. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-486-14201-2. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  2. ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "El Teb". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 300.
  3. ↑ Raugh, Harold E. (25 October 2004). The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Information Services. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-576-07925-6. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

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