Yaƙin Atbara

Yaƙin Atbara wanda aka fi sani da yaƙin kogin Atbara ya faru ne a lokacin yaƙin Mahdist. Sojojin Anglo-Masar sun fatattaki Mahdist 15,000 a gaɓar kogin Atbara. Yaƙin dai ya zamanto sauyin yanayi na sake kwato Sudan daga hannun kawancen ƙasashen Birtaniya da Masar. 
A shekara ta 1898, haɗin gwiwar sojojin Birtaniya da na Masar sun doshi kudu, sun haye kogin Nilu zuwa Sudan. Shugaban Mahadist na Sudan, Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad ya umurci sarki Mahmud Ahmad da sojojinsa masu karfi 10,000 na yammacin Sudan zuwa arewa zuwa mahaɗar kogin Nilu da kogin Atbara da su shiga tsakanin sojojin Ingila da Masar ƙarƙashin jagorancin Herbert Kitchener.

Da suka yi zango a bakin kogin Atbara a ranar 20 ga watan Maris, Mahmud, tare da kungiyar Osman Digna na mayakan Mahdist suna cikin  na sansanin Burtaniya a Fort Atbara a mahaɗin Atbara tare da kogin Nilu. A ranar 4 ga watan Afrilu, bayan ya ga cewa Mahdists ba su son kai hari, Kitchener ya yi shiru tare da sojojin Birtaniya da na Masar zuwa sansanin kagara na Mahdist da ke wajen garin Nakheila. 

An fara kai harin Anglo-Masar ne da karfe 06:20 a ranar 8 ga watan Afrilu 1898. Brigades uku, Brigade na Burtaniya ƙarƙashin jagorancin William Gatacre, da Brigades biyu na Rundunar Masar ƙarƙashin jagorancin Archibald Hunter, suka jagoranci harin.  Bayan wani takaitacciyar harin bama-bamai da aka kai a sansanin Mahdist, haɗaɗɗiyar dakarun Birtaniyya da na Masar sun kai hari.  Ba da daɗewa, sojojin Birtaniya da na Masar sun kasance a sansanin Mahdist, suna yawan faɗa hannu da hannu da mayakan Mahdist. Bayan mintuna 45 ne aka kawo ƙarshen yaƙin yayin da Osman Digna ya jagoranci wasu 'yan mayaka dubu da suka koma kudu, yayin da aka kashe ko kuma aka kama mafi yawan sauran, ciki har da Mahmud wanda sojojin Sudan masu aminci na Brigade na Masar suka kama. 

Mawaƙin Scotland William McGonagall ne ya yi bikin yaƙin.

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