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Battle of Tabkin Kwatto

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Tabkin Kwatto · Gobir · Nigeria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

The first decisive battle of the Sokoto jihad, in June 1804, in which Usman dan Fodio's outnumbered jihadists defeated the army of Gobir, giving the movement crucial momentum.

Belligerents2

Sokoto jihadists (Usman dan Fodio)
Kingdom of Gobir

Conflict graph

PART OFSokoto Jihad of Usman dan Fodio

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Tabkin Kwatto
Last, The Sokoto Caliphate
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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