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Somaliland campaign
Series of military expeditions from 1900 to 1920 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Somaliland Campaign | |||||||
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Part of the Scramble for Africa and World War I (1914–1918) | |||||||
![]() Aerial bombardment of Dervish forts in Taleh in February 1920 | |||||||
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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] |
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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.