Toshi. 181 became Sirdar.* The remaining battalions were raised as follows :— Xth Sudanese, January, 1886. Xlth Sudanese, January, 1887 (formed from the Reserve). XITth Sudanese, November, 1888. Xlllth Sudanese, June, 1886. XlVth Sudanese, March, 1896.

15 th Egyptian, March, 1896 (formed from the Reserve). 16th Egyptian, March, 1896 (formed from the Reserve). 17th Egyptian, 1896 and 1897. 18th Egyptian, 1897 (not complete).

Besides the above, there are now 10 squadrons of cavalry, 5 batteries artillery, 8 companies of camel corps, 3 companies garrison artillery, &c, besides 13 gunboats. At the end of 1888 the Khalifa made great prepara- invasion by tions for the invasion, and a large force was collected Nejum?. Tinder Wad en Nejumi.

By the end of May, 1889, Nejumi had reached Sakyet 1889.

•4b1 Abd with some 4,000 fighting men and 7,000 camp followers, the Egyptian frontier force being then about 2,000 men. On the 2nd July, Colonel Wodehouse, O.C.F.F.F., »J«£ engaged the enemy at Argin,t and, although with much inferior numbers, advanced -with determination to the attack, and inflicted a loss of 1,400. A British brigade was now being sent upstream, but General Grrenfell, finding Nejumi advancing very quickly, determined to attack him without waiting for English troops. % He stopped him at Toski,§ on the 3rd August, jjjjjjf and with 2 Egyptian and 4 Sudanese battalions (besides 3rd August cavalry and artillery) routed him completely. Wad en 8 ' Nejumi was killed, and his forces were practically destroyed. Thus ended the Mahdi's dream of the conquest of the world.

* Sir H. Kitchener succeeded as Sirdar in the spring of 1892. f Three miles north of Wadi Haifa, on the left bank. X One squadron of the 20th Hussars was the only British force present.

§ Twenty miles north of Abu Simbel.