Regional1903

Battle of Gumburu

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Somalia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Gumburu (1903), part of the Wars of the Mad Mullah. Somali Islamists defeated United Kingdom.

Belligerents2

Somali Islamists
United Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1900)

Conflict graph

PART OFAnglo-Somali War (Dervish State)

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Gumburu (1903). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-gumburu · Sources & methodology