My grandfather who was a regular soldier in the Indian army and died before I was born told my father who told me that he had a colleague who was at Omdurman. He said that when the first British volley hit the Sudanese they heard a loud groan as the bullets struck the Sudanese and the volley fire from their bolt action rifles was just sheer murder.
@manuelacosta9463
4 ай бұрын
This one was a slaughter with brave charges on both sides. That detail of a moving fence only to realize it's an enemy force moving right towards you must've been quite the eye opening surprise.
@arnoldbioursckii6639
3 ай бұрын
Ancient warriors wore helmets…these soldiers wear caps.?
@arnoldbioursckii6639
3 ай бұрын
Did the lancers have pistols?
@jimdevlin2138
3 ай бұрын
yes an eye opener indeed, but also a sphincter tightener
@Playesgamecamp
2 ай бұрын
@@arnoldbioursckii6639 Yes because older style helmets could not stop gunpowder
@Playesgamecamp
2 ай бұрын
@@arnoldbioursckii6639 they would also have to buy their own pistols
@hiramabiff2017
4 ай бұрын
The main reason they didn't want British influence in the region was the their abhorrent notion that the 2000 yr old highly lucrative slave trade into the middle east from the west Africa would be ended. They knew the British moral crusade to end slavery across the globe was non negotiable at any level. ( please fact check ).
@dvrmte
4 ай бұрын
Ethiopia didn't officially end slavery until 1942. The main reason they ended it was fear of Europeans using it as justification to colonize them. Unfortunately, Ethiopia didn't receive the benefits of colonization.
@WolfeTone17-98
4 ай бұрын
While the Brits treated the Irish worse than slaves and murdered 1.5 million of them through theft and famine.
@_wmd_
4 ай бұрын
Abolitionism of Slavery was certainly one of the causes, Wiki states Ethnic and Religious anger as the main reasons
@hiramabiff2017
4 ай бұрын
@@_wmd_ If your looking for real facts and real history why on earth would you use Wiki ? It's the last port of call when fact checking. Any system that allows it's user to edit it's pages is about reliable as a chocolate condom.
@WolfeTone17-98
4 ай бұрын
Invasions are "influence".... I suppose the Brits "influenced" 1/3 of the world by killing them and stealing their stuff.
@cymro6537
4 ай бұрын
" Those fuzzy wuzzies -they don't like it up 'em !" Corporal Jones
@JamesPhieffer
2 ай бұрын
Dad's Army - great series!
@BellumCinematicsTotalWar
4 ай бұрын
Dude you've improved so much in the last few months. I'm not a big fan of the time period, and you still managed to get my attention. Very nice video brother 🙏
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thanks bro I appreciate that!
@MasonBryant
4 ай бұрын
Brilliant video. The AI voice seemlessly changing from a British to an American accent is wild.
@michaelsorenson2660
4 ай бұрын
The tactics illustrated in this video were pretty good. The sequence of the events were completely correct as they occurred. Now for the nit-picking that I observed as someone who has studied British history and has studied this batlle numerous times. This video correctly showed the British infantry as wearing the khaki uniform, however the artillery and the 21st Lancers also were clad in khaki, Also it showed the artilleryman wearing Napoleonic British uniforms and employing muzzle loading cannon. In fat the were using much more modern breach loading artillery pieces. Also it showed the Britsh using single shot Martini-Henry rifles when in reality they were carrying bolt action Lee-Metford repeating rifles. This was one of the advantages that gave them the overwhelming fire power that helped them triumph. The Egyptian troops were the one carrying the Martini-Henrys. Finally it shows the gunboats as multiple deck warships which would have been unable to navigate the rivers of the Sudan. The gunboats were shallow draft steam vessels armed with modern breach loadinsg cannon and automatic weapons such as the Nordendfelt macine gun. I hesitated even sending this nit-picking comment about this overall outstanding video, but as good asit was I would have enjoyed it more personally if some of these details had been more accurate to how things actually were. I know that these details would not have been obvious to an individual who had not studied the battle in such deep detail. Overall I feel that you did an excellent job coverinng this battle. That is why I subscribed to this channel and look forward to future videos. Congradulations on your coverage of this campaign , and I look with great anticpation on viewing all of your works.
@1932christian
4 ай бұрын
Limits of the game
@jamestaylor5341
4 ай бұрын
The British artillerymen are navy sailors actually and are wearing the blue naval uniform of the time.
@andrewstrongman305
4 ай бұрын
The British-Egyptian force also had 20 Maxim machine guns, with each infantry battalion having a Maxim detachment in support. The infantry also fought from the cover of shallow trenches, not lined up in the open. The gunboats mounted an additional 24 Maxims. It's little wonder that the Mahdists were shredded when they tried to overrun the entrenched infantry.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment and support on the video! Unfortunately, there are some limitations with the game and some things I can't change, for example, the guns and the cannon crews. Thank you for being understanding though and I hope to hear from you in the future!
@andrewstrongman305
4 ай бұрын
@@cinematicbattles559 We do understand, and appreciate your efforts to portray battles as they were actually fought. Unfortunately, the battles fought in the late 19th century were overshadowed by those in the 'Great War' and then largely forgotten. Despite the limitations, you help bring to life otherwise dusty history. A few battles never properly depicted are the Battle of Beersheba in WW1, the Battle of Kokoda in WW2, and the Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam (aside from the movie Danger Close).
@chestersleezer8821
4 ай бұрын
Winston Churchill was young Lt in the 21st Cavalry charge which was 320 men who thought that they were going after around 100 men but instead ran right smack into around 3,000.
@malcolmmitchell6529
4 ай бұрын
And?
@chestersleezer8821
4 ай бұрын
@@malcolmmitchell6529 Just pointing out that Churchill did take part in that Cavalry charge thus providing some historical background/facts.
@robert.257
21 күн бұрын
Shame he lived then.
@chestersleezer8821
21 күн бұрын
@@robert.257 Why?
@angelastephenson1950
6 сағат бұрын
Prick @@robert.257
@Dracsmolar
4 ай бұрын
You know that the British expedition to curb the slave trade has little chance of being taught in schools as anything other than imperial colonialism.
@doctorshawzy6477
4 ай бұрын
the modern english are degenerate self haters
@cseivard
4 ай бұрын
Very entertaining graphics!
@lonnieclemens8028
4 ай бұрын
It is interesting to hear the name of Lt. Winston Churchill.
@littleinkling4604
4 ай бұрын
Wonderful. Such a shame that so much of the British Empire is misunderstood. No idea Britain went into Sudan to push back against Mahdist slavery. Do they tell kids at school this? Probably something sinister instead. I also think of all the great war films we've never had because Empire=Bad. Yet often it was Empire vs something so much more terrible instead.
@jeremymerrifield7244
4 ай бұрын
mmmm. Not sure i believe this was the real reason
@littleinkling4604
4 ай бұрын
@@jeremymerrifield7244 Wikipedia confirmed it 😉
@williamanderson6006
4 ай бұрын
Yeah we know Wikipedia is never wrong lol. Woke propaganda. Believe me the British weren't on some sacred crusade
@martinabsolom2231
4 ай бұрын
I agree. Keeping the canal open for trade was far more important to the British. @@jeremymerrifield7244
@malcolmmitchell6529
4 ай бұрын
Slavery was an integral part of economy for thousands of years, then britain says NO!
@DennisBlades
3 ай бұрын
So here’s to you Fuzzy -Wuzzy at your home in the Soudan , you’re a poor benighted eathen but a first class fighting man.
@alexius23
4 ай бұрын
Using wooden ships of the line (Nelson’s era) was a tad silly. The River gunboats were very modern & first rate ships
@kierans1159
4 ай бұрын
They seem to be Crimean Way era ships, river gunboats (under Beatty) looked very different and certainly were not 3 masted sailing ships with an added boiler. They had negotiated the Nile cataracts, 3 masted ships of the line would have struggled with that!
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment, unfortunately, some things are hard to get right as there are limitations with the game I'm using, for example, there was no option to change the artillery uniforms if there was I would have changed them
@kierans1159
4 ай бұрын
@@cinematicbattles559 I understand, and the amount of work must have been huge so well done.
@alexius23
4 ай бұрын
@@cinematicbattles559 I understand & appreciate your restraints.
@sonnyjim5268
4 ай бұрын
Great video, thank you for making it.
@AsdrubalBarka
4 ай бұрын
Good work, awesome video.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@paultyson4389
4 ай бұрын
You always do fantastic recreations but this one would be your best. The bravery and fanaticism of this Islamic army was impressive in the face of overwhelming firepower.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@mr.s2005
4 ай бұрын
thus Gordon was finally avenged.
@stephenpickering8063
3 ай бұрын
One interesting bit was that it mentioned the local loyalist as being loyal to the Ottomans in the commentary while the note in the section heading mentions them as British loyalists. Just to mention that to a degree both are true. Egypt, while a de facto independent state until it came under a brief Anglo-French occupation then after the French withdrawal became a de facto British protectorate was still officially a province of the Ottoman empire, as was Cyprus. Britain arranged the paying of tribute for both provinces to the Ottomans until the latter joined the CPs in 1914 at which point Egypt was declared an independent state. - Which technically it wasn't as it stayed under British control until after WWII. Amazing how complex some of the politics were. Similarly Sudan having been conquered by the Egyptian Khedive in the mid 19thC largely to be used as a source of slaves and after 1898 was technically an Anglo-Egyptians Condominium.
@oneshotme
4 ай бұрын
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@gort8687
2 ай бұрын
which total war game is this?
@yousifabdalhalim514
4 ай бұрын
If Russia has general winter we have field marshal summer, when men and bravery nullified by technology, nature makes the difference. Churchill acknowledged the Sudanese bravery and valor in his book Sudanese up to this day say 'the Men died in Karary' in rememberance of their fallen who faced the maxims with bare chests
@NR-rv8rz
4 ай бұрын
How did a British officer end up commanding an Ottoman unit? Weren't the British and Ottoman rivals? Or had the Ottomans accepted the loss of Egypt and the Mahdi was a common enemy to both?
@darvennej4495
4 ай бұрын
The Mahdi was a ""Prophet'' that Islam would be victorious against the Western Infidels .After Gordon was killed in 1882 > the British Empire disappeared ffor 16 years and the Mahdi had ruled the areas ,Ottomans were not ''Mahdi's '''they were a Empire .and Burreaucrats organized into a adminstration. The Mahdi was an "'Islamist '' extremist or a ""Messiah'', Yes the Ottomans were against his oresence .
@jochannon
4 ай бұрын
Egypt was technically under Ottoman suzerainty at the time, while actually under British control
@MrPh30
Ай бұрын
Egypt were far out in the Ottoman border areas one can say, little feedback and report ,support from the main capital and forces . Due to Ottomans loosimg influence and diminished power year by year, and the supplies and communication levels rather low. This making the Khediv seeking new advisory and someone that had the time and energy .
@richardpcrowe
3 ай бұрын
Very enjoyable video. The British gunboats were incorrect i that they are illustrated as Napoleonic era frigates. The actual gunboats were modern ironclads.
@zach7193
4 ай бұрын
Well, this was something. A bloodbath. A battle where Winston Churchill makes his appearance.
@billredding2000
4 ай бұрын
...and his C96 Mauser pistol.
@Captain-Donut
4 ай бұрын
Wow what a great new channel ❤️🙏 Love from Scotland 🙏❤️
@charlescap-bu5cn
4 ай бұрын
Listen for 'Colour Sgt. Bourne'
@northlincsfox243
4 ай бұрын
Yes, I heard it. “All (right)…”
@Limbo_Lambo
4 ай бұрын
Great video! Good to see some Mahdist war content. One small nitpick I suppose I should point out is that it wasn’t ‘Ali Wad Hilu’s army which fought Broadwood in the Karari hills, but rather ‘Uthman Shaykh al-Din.
@koyyoung8673
28 күн бұрын
Victory because of superior tactics, training, and technology.
@davidcoleman2796
3 ай бұрын
Churchill could not use his sabre in his right hand because of a previous Injury to his shoulder. He had to draw his mouser pistol. And shoot a number of the enemy dead with it.. Read his book, if you have the chance..
@philgriffiths5514
Ай бұрын
Left- Tennant surely. Churchill got about a bit. Great watch🙌
@MS-sb9ov
4 ай бұрын
AI narrator can’t make up its mind whether it’s British, Irish or American.
@bruced1429
4 ай бұрын
Winston Churchill, was saved in that calvery charge by having bought a German Mauser pistol with a 10 shot magazine. He could not use his sword due to a dislocated shoulder so the pistol saved him. When he was surounded by madishs he pushed the pistol in their faces as they tried to take him off his horse. Killed 10 right off, reloaded with a second magazine took a couple more out and fled out of the waddie with his life and some of his men. This is in his biography.
@AW1Lucky
4 ай бұрын
Calvary is the hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. Cavalry is what old time Armies did with horses, swords and what not.
@alaindaubresse2161
4 ай бұрын
Mauser c96 7,63
@leelowe251
4 ай бұрын
Great video and love watching and learning about Victorias little wars. Crimea and Afghan wars please!
@tomperkins5657
4 ай бұрын
Excellent.
@martinsmith9054
4 ай бұрын
Edmund Blackadder gave a riveting account of the battle.
@blumenthol
Ай бұрын
"War is death's feast". Ulysses Grant
@WaferBrik
4 ай бұрын
Imagine being involved in such a brutal conflict. Scary.
@ArmyJames
4 ай бұрын
All right then…… Nobody told you to stop working.
@adamdavis9838
4 ай бұрын
That officer is in every battle!
@ArmyJames
4 ай бұрын
@@adamdavis9838 That’s Colour-Sergeant Bourne!
@charlescap-bu5cn
4 ай бұрын
@@ArmyJames "Mr. James, sir. Be quiet will you! There's a good gentleman; you'll upset the lads!"
@travisdonaldstanley6420
3 ай бұрын
Yes Sir!
@Dracsmolar
4 ай бұрын
War is Hell. Always has been, always will be.
@glennclark5642
4 ай бұрын
By the way a very good video, very informative, thnk you.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@WhateverDaaah
3 ай бұрын
Most of the failures you pointed out is because the footage was compiled using the game “total war Napoleon” in which only ships of the line are a available and no sea to land bombardment / battles. That’s why you see them shooting roundshot from the boat and then explosive mortar round hitting the old mortar cannons. Also I believe they said that the rifles where bolt action multi shot
@LT_Cobra270
Ай бұрын
I would just like to say that around this date (1890's) is a big grey area in total war modding. So I think you did a great job with what you had.
@MichaelCampin
4 ай бұрын
The Royal Camel Corp was basically the Royal Marines
@poissonnoir
3 ай бұрын
Loo -tenant? Loo - tenant?? Left-tenant surely.
@bernieodea3874
3 ай бұрын
They came on in the same old way, and we stopped them in the same old way.
@Seagullias12
2 ай бұрын
You might consider editing the appearance of the "Gunboats":
@kippies66
4 ай бұрын
British cavalry: "Oh look, a small group of Mahdists. Let's take care of them!" Mahdists: *Springs ambush with a larger group of men hidden nearby* British cavalry: "Bugger! But we survived and drove them off. Oh look, another small group of Mahdists! Surely there won't be another-" Mahdists: *Springs another ambush with hidden men* British cavalry: *Suprised pikachu face*
@TheSpritz0
4 ай бұрын
As a VET myself, I have to give you a HUGE thumbs up BROTHER- AWESOME video and I am HONORED to subscribe!! I will watch ALL your videos, hopefully in the future you can cover many many more battles!!!! I will send these to my comrades who served as well...
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you!
@oliverpearson1577
4 ай бұрын
Being a vet, you must have been concerned about the welfare of the horses.
@gerardhogan3
4 ай бұрын
Good to see the case shot affect from the guns. Very effective anti pers weapon
@tonynewman8586
4 ай бұрын
Incredible people the British -it’s like a advanced alien nation - the rest of the world literally had no chance - where does it stem from - it’s incredible
@ArmyJames
4 ай бұрын
It stemmed from the British industrializing their military before anybody else did.
@MasonBryant
4 ай бұрын
We had a lot of testosterone back then and needed to release it all over the worlds face in great gooey goodness. Rule Britannia! (The sack was well and truly empty by the time of the second world war)
@MasonBryant
4 ай бұрын
I replied to this but it was deleted for some reason
@mathiasbartl9393
4 ай бұрын
This was only shortly before the outbreak of the Second Boer war, in which the British Army would have a totally different experience.
@robert.257
21 күн бұрын
We should take time to remember the horses and camels who died. After all they didn't have a choice or gained anything from the victory.
@alexius23
4 ай бұрын
Maxim guns played a significant role
@PxThucydides
4 ай бұрын
No mention of what part the 20 Maxim guns played.
@infoscholar5221
3 ай бұрын
10:25 The cavalry fell to the very same tactic used against Custer, 148 years ago, just two days from now.
@Mightyenas_Revenge
Ай бұрын
I imagine the worst thing on Earth would be a British soldier and having to go fight in these hell holes of countries.
@TWilson-m4r
2 ай бұрын
Spectacularily wrong on the gunboats!! Don’t they have a basic checker?
@VincentNajger1
4 ай бұрын
I love how those screeching about 'colonizers' never mention this, or are completely unaware of it as it doesn't fit their current narrative, which more likely.
@jeremymerrifield7244
4 ай бұрын
Did Britain still have wooden ships in their Navy in 1898 ?
@NickNasr
22 күн бұрын
They still using wooden ships 🚢 today's 😂
@George-ey4lx
4 ай бұрын
Can you please do the battle of Mactan in the Philippines?
@davey7452
4 ай бұрын
Some of the illustrations are incorrect ie: the gun boats are shallow draft steel hulled equipped with breech loading guns ahd the field artillery were steel breech loading guns not Napoleanic wooden carrage cast iron muzzle loaders.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment, unfortunately, some things are hard to get right as there are limitations with the game I'm using, for example, there was no option to change the artillery uniforms if there was I would have changed them
@JakubPol
4 ай бұрын
Yea, since this is total war NAPOLEON, even though it is modded, things like that cannot be changed
@michaelmooney7147
9 күн бұрын
What happened to the Sudanese prisoners
@kidthump
4 ай бұрын
Could you do one on the Civil War from start to finish? I love your videos.
@MasonBryant
4 ай бұрын
English civil war is the chad civil war.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Yes, that is a good idea, it might take a while though haha. Which civil war do you mean though?
@kidthump
4 ай бұрын
@@cinematicbattles559 The American Civil War. When you get some time, it would be cool to see. Good stuff and I'm learning a lot.
@brianferris8668
4 ай бұрын
Which Civil War?
@celston51
4 ай бұрын
England has faced several civil wars, even if only one has the title: The Rebellion of 1088 The Anarchy period The Barons Rebellions The War of the Roses The English Civil War
@SyaqilHazeeqHasrilSufiantoPl1
4 ай бұрын
R.I.P To The Mahdist Soldiers Who Died Fighting Bravely For Their Homeland
@darthson9655
4 ай бұрын
I've been to Sudan. Why any army would fight over that god forsaken land is beyond my comprehension. It is one of the most hopeless place I had ever visited on this Earth.
@zico739
4 ай бұрын
Before that, Sudan had been the conquered subjects of the Ottomans for a good while.
I've heard of this before? In the movie with Charlton Heston and others, 'Khartoum?'
@albertocastillo5763
3 ай бұрын
Most exciting video. Like being there
@jerrylindley9096
3 ай бұрын
Discipline and volley fire overcame numbers , rule Brittania.
@peterdavidchessell5952
Ай бұрын
Why are they showing wooden ships of the 18th century they were ironclads in those days.
@MegaWillieo
Ай бұрын
The Nile gunboats were not three gunboats didn’t look like that❤
@jackson24241000
4 ай бұрын
Colour sergeant bourne 08.15, you’re welcome
@1bskemp
4 ай бұрын
Whats the game? Modded Empire?
@WJack97224
Ай бұрын
Were the Maxim guns used?
@WilfChadwick
Ай бұрын
This was to stop slavery.
@LarryVincent-ki4qy
3 ай бұрын
1898 Double deck warships on the Nile? Really,,,,
@ShannonBall-w6h
4 ай бұрын
And now britian is defeated without a shot.
@grahamward3504
4 ай бұрын
very good but wrong artillery uniforms
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thanks! Unfortunately this was the only option with the game that I was using
@richardh615
4 ай бұрын
Nice vid fiction, nothing like the photos I have seen of the actual event. Also having read the real accounts of the battle by the likes of Churchill and the biography of Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, who commanded many of the none British troops at the battle. I found it funny. They said that the Mardist forces never got close enough to the British lines to engage in hand to hand, apart from the cavalry actions. The artillery uniforms looked a little Napolonic!. As for the Gun boats, try looking them up on Google, plenty of original photos there. My main beef here, it the it gives kids the wrong impression of history, which is my passion.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment, unfortunately, some things are hard to get right as there are limitations with the game I'm using, for example, there was no option to change the artillery uniforms if there was I would have changed them
@johnnyweng1164
3 ай бұрын
Maxim machine guns. You forget them. 20 of them
@footscorn
4 ай бұрын
Ka kee!? Do you mean khaki ?
@SyaqilHazeeqHasrilSufiantoPl1
4 ай бұрын
Bro That Was So Many Wrong People Into It, However, I Know That They Didn't Had Enough Type Of British Artillery
@williamschlosser77
3 ай бұрын
The British ships depicted that engaged the shore batteries were far, far out of date.
@alatmanuor3351
4 ай бұрын
B n ver conquer Sudan , why then they never settle. Madi triumph at the end . Also known our ppl just had spade and ppl
@charlescap-bu5cn
4 ай бұрын
Mahdi was already dead. They shelled the bastard's tomb. And the bastard along with it.
@charlescap-bu5cn
4 ай бұрын
and they still DO
@YohannesBishaw-i6w
3 ай бұрын
The mahdist were defeated by ethiopia to help britain and almost 3000 were dead and 1500 wonded
@carlodefalco7930
4 ай бұрын
?.?🤔🤔 why british kept being surprised by how many actual number of mahdists? Didn’t they use and scouts 🤔🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
@DarrenLine-k4j
4 ай бұрын
Never lost a war.
@chrisnel5505
5 күн бұрын
Empire tho
@sitrakaforler8696
4 ай бұрын
RULE BRITANIA !!!!
@ShyneThyLyte
4 ай бұрын
Destruction everywhere on the continent
@darvennej4495
4 ай бұрын
Interesting that the Mahdi couldn't fielf 100,000 Army . The ''believe in his Diety being ''was not sold on the North and East Africans .Though the Bantu tribes were ?,They were as courageoue as the Zulu's ,though woefully unprepared to fight . Its amazing that some other European Arms dealer ,didn't do a good enough job,of outfitting the Mahdi's Army ? At Adwas the French and Brits supplied the Ethiopians ?
@matthewshepherd5390
4 ай бұрын
The accent keeps drifting into American. Its a really good attempt of an English accent though
@Kanezilla66
Ай бұрын
NOW THAT WAS AN ASS KICKING 😂
@worldwarmini3919
4 ай бұрын
To suppress slave trade
@hunterluxton5976
4 ай бұрын
And that's why we had such the biggest empire the world has ever er seen. We were sharp, intelligent. , brave and utterly ruthless.
@conveyor2
4 ай бұрын
Nile gunboats looked like HMS Victory? Hilarious!
@poil8351
4 ай бұрын
The funniest bit is the royal artillery wearing out of date uniforms by about 60 years.
@cinematicbattles559
4 ай бұрын
Unfortunately this was my only option due to game limitations
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