[With Kitchener in the Soudan by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWith Kitchener in the Soudan CHAPTER 12: The Battle Of Atbara 28/40
The Lincolns had one killed and eighteen wounded; the Warwicks two killed and eighteen wounded.
Many of the wounded afterwards died. The Egyptians had lost more heavily.
The casualties among them were fifty-seven killed; and four British and sixteen native officers, and three hundred and sixty-seven non-commissioned officers and men, wounded. The Dervish loss was terrible.
Three thousand men were killed, among whom were nearly all the emirs; and two thousand were taken prisoners. The rest were hopeless fugitives, and a vast number of these must have been wounded. There was but a short rest for the troops.
When the wounded had been collected, and carried to a neighbouring palm grove, where the surgeons did all that could then be done for them; and the trophies of the fight--banners and spears, guns of all sorts, swords and knives--had been gathered, principally by the exultant Soudanese and Egyptians, the force prepared for a start. "May I ask, General, what is to be done with the women ?" Gregory said. "I have been speaking to the Sirdar about them, and I was just going to ask you to go with me to them.
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