El Obeid

[ el oh-beyd ]

noun

1. a city in the central Sudan: Egyptian army defeated by Mahdist forces 1883.

El Obeid

/ ɛl əʊˈbeɪd /

noun

1. a city in the central Sudan, in Kordofan province: scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi (1883). Pop: 423 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

The army had suffered much from want of water, but they had obtained plenty from a lake within three days' march from El Obeid.

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Delen, situated five days' journey to the south of El Obeid, is on one of the smallest of the mountain ranges.

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El Obeid is situated in the midst of a vast plain, which in the hot weather is just like a desert.

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As we approached El Obeid, the rattle of the rifles, broken every now and then by the boom of a gun, became more and more audible.

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Such was the end of the brave defenders of El Obeid, who, in truth, deserved a better fate.

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