Significant1808 – 1812 · 4 years

Al-Kanemi's Defence of Bornu

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Ngazargamu · Kanem-Bornu

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

After Fulani jihadists sacked the Bornu capital Ngazargamu in 1808, the scholar-warrior Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi rallied resistance, halted the Sokoto jihad's eastward expansion, and became Bornu's effective ruler.

Belligerents2

Bornu Empire (al-Kanemi)
Sokoto jihadists

Sources

Wikipedia: Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi
Histories of Kanem-Bornu
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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