Abu Klea, on the route across country between Korti and Metammeh, both on the great bend of the Nile below Khartoum, was the scene of a battle on the 17th January 1885, in which Sir Herbert Stewart defeated the Mahdi's forces.
Abu Klea
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 22
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