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By the end of 1884, both the garrison and the population of Khartoum were starving to death.
Gordon pressed Wolseley to send forward a flying column of camel-borne troops across the Bayyudah Desert from Wadi Halfa under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Stewart.
This force was attacked by the Hadendoa Beja (Fuzzy Wuzzies), twice, first at the Battle of Abu Klea and two days later closer to Metemma.
Twice the British square held and the Mahdists were repelled with heavy losses.
After the Nile had receded from flood stage, one of Gordon's pashas (officers), Faraz Pasha, had opened the river gates and let the Ansār in.
The garrison was slaughtered, the male population massacred and the women and children enslaved.
Gordon was killed fighting the Mahdi's warriors on the steps of the palace, where he was hacked to pieces and beheaded.
When Gordon's head was unwrapped at the Mahdi's feet, he ordered the head to be fixed between the branches of a tree.
In the hours following Gordon's death, an estimated 10,000 civilians and members of the garrison were killed in Khartoum.
The massacre was finally halted by orders of the Mahdi.
Two days later British force arrived in Khartoum, they retreated after attempting to force their way to the centre of the town on ships, where they were met by a hail of gunfire.
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