The Second Suakin Expedition 1885 | The Suakin Field Force 1885 | The Battle of Tofrek Sudan
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The Second Suakin Expedition, Sudan
The Second Suakin Expedition, Sudan 1885 & the Battle of Tofrek
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The second Suakin expedition (also called the Suakin Field Force) was in response to the death of General Charles Gordon in Khartoum in 1885.
The joint British-Indian army expedition, commanded by General Gerald Graham had two objectives:
The first would be to bring the Dervish general, Osman Digna, to heel.
Despite, his defeats at El Teb and Tamai, the year before, Digna had managed to re-assert his control of the region. His defeat would prove to the British public that the war was being taken to the Sudanese.
The second purpose of the expedition was an ambitious plan to construct a 280 mile railway across the inhospitable desert linking General Sir Garnet Wolseley’s Nile expedition to the Red Sea coast - a much shorter supply line than his current one all the way up the Nile from Egypt.
The highpoint of the expedition was the British victory over a Dervish army at the battle of Tofrek on the 22nd March 1885.
Yet, within weeks of General McNeill’s victory at Tofrek, the British campaign in there Sudan was wound down due to a war scare with Russia over India.
On the 17th May 1885, just over 2 months after landing, General Graham and most of his Suakin Field Force were evacuated from Sudan.
Just 20 of the 280 miles of railway had been completed and Osman Digna remained in the field.
The Nile Expedition was wound up and General Sir Garnet Wolseley returned to Britain, never to lead an army in the field again.
An interesting footnote to the Suakin expedition was the arrival of a contingent of 700 men from New South Wales. They were the first Australian unit to serve abroad on active service - 30 years before Gallipoli.
This is the intriguing, arguably pointless and largely forgotten story of the Second Suakin Expedition in Sudan, 1885.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:43 The British in Sudan
2:39 First Suakin Expedition 1884
4:37 Second Suakin Expedition 1885
6:03 The Suakin Field Force
8:09 General McNeill’s Zeriba
12:39 The Battle of Tofrek
15:38 Australia’s First Battle Honour
17:06 End of the Expedition
20:15 The History Chap
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