The Battle of Tamai took place on 13 March 1884 between a British force under Sir Gerald Graham and a Mahdist Sudanese army led by Osman Digna.
An incident at the Battle of Tamai, eastern Sudan, 13th March, 1884 by Godfrey Douglas Giles
Emir Mahmoud, a Mahdist leader, as prisoner after the Battle of Atbara, photograph by Francis Gregson, 1898