Somaliland campaign

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Somaliland Campaign
Part of the Scramble for Africa and World War I (1914–1918)
Aerial bombardment of Dervish forts in Taleh in February 1920
Date 1900–1920 (20 years) Location Somaliland Result Allied Victory Collapse of the Dervish movement Consolidation of British Somaliland Consolidation of Italian Somaliland
Belligerents
British Empire  Italy  Ethiopia (1900–1904)	Dervish movement Supported by: German Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Eric John Eagles Swayne Richard Corfield † Robert Gordon Giacomo De Martino 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.