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Anglo-Zanzibar War

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Zanzibar

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

38-minute Royal Navy bombardment that deposed Sultan Khalid bin Barghash, often called the shortest war in history.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Zanzibar

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1900)Sultanate of Zanzibar

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/anglo-zanzibar-war · Sources & methodology