History of the Sudanese War They reached them, but he remained on horseback until the end of the fighting. The enemy also fired their rifles at the army, making a lot of noise. All this time, the British did not fire a single shot at them until they cut off the northern side of their forts and passed them by a distance of a thousand yards. Then they fell at noon and sat on the ground. Their cannonballs and rifle bullets rained down on the enemy, and they retreated. Then their cannons fell silent, and after their ammunition ran out, the British sounded the bugle, and their soldiers rushed towards the enemy's fort. It was impregnable, with many trenches and ramparts, and Arabs were captured within it. They remained in their positions, and only death could wound them. The number of those who appeared was no more than two thousand men, and those hidden in the fort were a number other than those. While the British advance was progressing and their bullets were clearing the way, a group of Arabs emerged from the trenches from behind the ramparts. They had bared their spears and drawn their swords and fell upon them like eagles. The British were amazed by their steadfastness, courage, and lack of fear of death, as they plunged into the heat of battle. But they annihilated them with their bullets, fearing their deadly attacks. It is said that a large number of them approached within ten steps of the advance guard, and when they were hit by bullets, they would still use their hands to carry on the advance guard with their weapons until their doom came. The British army continued to advance until it captured the fort, after the fighting with the Arabs had exhausted them, especially since many were hidden among the dead and in the trenches, waiting until the advance guard passed them, then they would pounce on them like swooping wolves and mix with the soldiers, and they would see the rise of swords and spears, and they would wound and kill them. Therefore, the British wounded were numerous there, and some of them, after this fort, were said to have...