Major conflict1900 – 1920 · 20 years
Anglo-Somali War (Dervish State)
Taleh · Jidballi · Dul Madoba · Medishe
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
Twenty-year struggle between the British and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervishes, ended by the 1920 RAF bombing of Taleh.
Belligerents4
- United Kingdom
- Dervish State
- Ethiopian Empire
- Italy
ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1900)Ethiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)
Conflict graph
SUB-CONFLICTS · 13
- Sayyid Hassan Bardera campaigns1900–05
- Battle of Ferdiddin1901
- Battle of Samala1901
- Battle of Erego1902
- Battle of Daratoleh1903
- Battle of Gumburu1903
- Battle of Jidballi1904
- Battle of Illig1904
- Battle of Dul Madoba1913
- Battle of OK Pass1919
- Battle of Baran1920
- Battle of Galiabur1920
+ 1 more in the atlas.
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Anglo-Somali War (Dervish State) (1900 – 1920). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/anglo-somali-war-dervish-state · Sources & methodology