The Battle of Tamai 1884 | British- Mahdist War, Sudan.

The Battle of Tami was fought on the 13th March 1884 between the British and Mahdist armies in Sudan.

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This is the story of the Battle of Tamai 1884.
Just to be confusing this battle is also referred to by some other names / spellings:
The Battle of Tamaai (often seen on campaign medals)
The Battle of Tamanieh

The Battle of Tamai was fought during the Mahdist revolt against Egyptian control in Sudan.
After a botched attempt by their army to relief the garrison besieged by Osman Digna's Beja tribesmen at Tokar, the Egyptians appealed to the British for help.

Despite his reservations about getting involved in a bloody, costly and pointless war in the Sudan, Prime Minister Gladstone agreed to send an expeditionary force to the Red Sea coast of Sudan.

The force, led by General Gerald Graham VC consisted of just over 4,000 men drawn from:

1st Black Watch
3rd King's Royal Rifle Corps
1st Gordon Highlanders
2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers
1st York & Lancaster Regiment
The Royal Marines Light Infantry
10th Hussars
19th Hussars
Royal Artillery (20 guns)
Naval Brigade (with 6 Gatling & Gardiner machine guns).

Having defeated the Mahdist-supporting Beja at the battle of El Teb, General Graham advanced on Osman Digna's camp at the wells at Tamai.

In a 3 hour battle, the Beja warriors managed to break into the British square - something almost unheard of since the Napoleonic Wars - before being repulsed.
In the end British army discipline and firepower turned the tables on the Mahdists and delivered a British victory.

Nevertheless, with over 100 men killed and a further 100 injured, the battle of Tamai was the costliest engagement that the British fought during the Mahdist war.




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