Human: What was the name of the British General who commanded the British forces at the Battle of Omdurman? Assistant: 
The British General who commanded the British forces at the Battle of Omdurman was Charles George Gordon. Gordon had a low opinion of the Egyptian, Turkish and Arab Sudanese troops under his command-whom he constantly disparaged as a mutinous, badly disciplined and ill-trained rabble good only for looting – but had a much higher opinion of his black Sudanese soldiers, most of them former slaves who would rather die fighting as free men than live as