Somaliland campaign

Somaliland Campaign
Part of the Scramble for Africa
and World War I (1914–1918)

Aerial bombardment of Dervish forts in Taleh in February 1920
Date1900–1920
(20 years)
Location
Result

Allied Victory

Belligerents
 British Empire
 Italy
 Ethiopia (1900–1904)
Dervish movement
Supported by:
German Empire
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Eric John Eagles Swayne
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Richard Corfield 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Robert Gordon
Kingdom of Italy Giacomo De Martino
Ethiopian Empire Menelik II
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan
Haji Sudi 
Nur Ahmed Aman
Ismail Mire
Casualties and losses
200 British dead[1]
1,700 assorted ethnicities KAR
4,000 dead[1]
100,000–150,000 Somali civilians killed[1]

The Somaliland Campaign, also called the Anglo-Somali War or the Dervish War, was a series of military expeditions that took place between 1900 and 1920 in modern-day Somalia. The British were assisted in their offensives by the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.

During the First World War (1914–1918), the Dervish leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan received support for a time from the Ottoman Empire and the Ethiopian emperor-designate Lij Iyasu.[2][3] The conflict ended when the British aerially bombed the Dervish capital of Taleh in February 1920.

  1. ^ a b c "Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls". necrometrics.com.
  2. ^ Nicolle, David (2008). The Ottomans Empire of Faith. Thalamus. p. 173. ISBN 9781902886114. Meanwhile, the Ottoman commander outside Aden sent supplies to the so-called Mad Mullah's revolt against British
  3. ^ Gerwarth, Robert; Manela, Erez (2014). Empires at War: 1911-1923. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198702511.

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