Top: Cameroon Highlanders sweep forward along the Nile, driving the Jehadiya reiflemen back. The West Kents are finding it harder to advance.
Next: The Royal Marines advance in support, just as the Ansar pour down the center of the village.
Below Top: "Can't see any sign of the Mahdist, sir!" The heliograph unit is surprised.
Below: Bottom: The Royal marines in the thick of it again, having landed from the gunboat.
All figures and gunboat from Redoubt Enterprises, Peter Helm's collection.
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