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Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Light Infantry Location: Africa Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1885 Date/s: 22 March 1885 The sacking of Khartoum and the killing of General Gordon and the massacre of thousands of civilians at the hands of Mahdist warriors in January 1885, together with the failure of the relief effort of General Wolseley's Nile Expedition, prompted the British government to revive plans to build a railway between the port of Suakin on the Red Sea and Ber

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Tamai Period/ Conflict: Sudanese War Year: 1884 Date/s: 13 March 1884 The Battle of Tamai (or Tamanieh) took place on 13 March 1884 between a British force under Sir Gerald Graham and a Mahdist Sudanese army led by Osman Digna. At 8am on 13th March 1884, the British force paraded for the advance to attack Osman Digna’s camp, some two miles distant. Two brigade squares were formed with the Second Brigade leading and the First Brig