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| The British soldier and statesman Horatio Herbert Kitchener is best known today for his role in establishing a large, volunteer army at the outbreak of World War I. However, his principal military achievement in a long and illustrious career was his reconquest of the Sudan, which culminated in his defeat of the the army of The Khalifa at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. | ||||||
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| Omdurman, Battle of; Scramble for Africa; Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener | ||||||
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