Battle of Tamai
{'<entity_0>': 'Battle of Tamai', '<entity_1>': '13 March 1884', '<entity_2>': 'Sudan', '<entity_3>': 'United Kingdom', '<entity_4>': 'battle'}
[['Battle of Tamai', 'location', 'Sudan'], ['Battle of Tamai', 'participant', 'United Kingdom'], ['Battle of Tamai', 'point in time', '13 March 1884'], ['Battle of Tamai', 'instance of', 'battle'], ['Battle of Tamai', 'start time', '13 March 1884'], ['Battle of Tamai', 'end time', '13 March 1884']]
The <entity_0> (or Tamanieh) took place on <entity_1> between a <entity_3> force under Sir Gerald Graham and a Mahdist <entity_2> army led by Osman Digna. The <entity_3> forces involved in the <entity_4> were: On the night of 12 March the <entity_3> formed an encampment, not far from Osman Digna's positions. During this <entity_4>, the <entity_3> suffered more losses than in any other <entity_4> of the Mahdist war, 214 soldiers being wounded or killed, ten of whom were officers (Churchill gives 208 men, 13 officers). For their conspicuous bravery during the <entity_4>, Private Thomas Edwards of the Black Watch and Lieutenant Percival Marling of the King's Royal Rifle Corps were awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration in the <entity_3> Army. Therefore, Graham’s campaign came to be seen purely as a punitive exercise against the <entity_2> to restore <entity_3> military pride. Winston Churchill, who later participated in the Mahdist war, was critical of the <entity_3> Government's attitude in Eastern <entity_2>: It has been suggested that the objective of <entity_3> operations in that sector was to avert a possible peril to navigation in the Red Sea. If the Mahdists had taken control of the whole of the <entity_2> coast, they might have threatened ships travelling to India, thus endangering the <entity_3> Empire.
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