ELSWICK, ward, west parliamentary division, Newcastle upon-Tyne, England. It contains the great ordnance and naval works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Elswick park.
a halting-place in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan near the coast of the Red sea, 9 m. S.W. of the port of Trinkitat on the road to 'Tokar. There were two battles there in 1884. In the first, on Feb. 4, a heterogenous Egyptian force under Baker Pasha was destroyed by the Sudanese tribesmen under Osman Digna. In the second, on Feb. 29, a British force under General Graham par tially avenged this disaster. For an account see EGYPT AND SUDAN CAMPAIGNS IN 1882-1899.
