 The Lancers' onslaught carried them through the 12-men-deep "Ansar" line with the Lancers losing 71 dead and wounded while killing hundreds of the enemy.Following the annihilation of his army, the Khalifa ordered a retreat and early in the afternoon, Kitchener rode in triumph into Omdurman and immediately ordered that the thousands of Christians enslaved by the "Ansar" were now all free people.Kitchener lost fewer than 500 men while killing about 11,000 and wounding 17,000 of the "Ansar".