COLONIAL WARS

BRITISH CAMEL CORPS

In 1884 the British press were in uproar. Nothing new there, but the story that was selling newspapers at that time was the predicament of Charles George Gordon, who had been sent to Khartoum in the Sudan to organise its evacuation. Instead he decided to stay and fight the Islamist rebels, yet he had few troops and his position seemed increasingly hopeless. Under intense pressure the British Government organised the Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition, which made its way slowly up the Nile to rescue the Victorian hero. They failed. The Islamists took Khartoum and Gordon was killed, but the expedition included a large number of British infantry and cavalry mounted on camels. Acting as mounted infantry, these men fought many battles during their time in the Sudan, and it is great to see them finally appear in 1/72 plastic.

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