When he recognises that his position is perfectly hopeless, and yet is determined to fight to the death, he takes his sheepskin off and stands upon it until he dies.
See, they are all upon their sheepskins.

They will neither give nor take quarter now." The drama beneath them was rapidly approaching its climax.

The Halfa Corps was well up, and a ring of smoke and flame surrounded the clump of kneeling Dervishes, who answered it as best they could.

Many of them were already down, but the rest loaded and fired with the unflinching courage which has always made them worthy antagonists.

A dozen khaki-dressed figures upon the sand showed that it was no bloodless victory for the Egyptians.