The Battle of Jigjiga was fought on March 5, 1900 between The Abyssinians and the allied forces of the Webi sultanate and the Dervish kingdom of Diiriye Guure.[1]
| Battle of Jigjiga | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
|
|
 Ethiopia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Mohamed Abdullah Hassan |
Grazmatch benti | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
|
6,000 Armed with lances[2] | 15,000[3] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 170[4] | Unknown | ||||||
The Ethiopian empire sent an expedition to capture either king Diiriye Guure or his emir Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. Failing to locate them, they indiscriminately looted the local Somalis.[2][3]
In response, in the first allied force between the Webi sultanate and Diiriye Guure's kingdom, an attack was led by Both Webi forces and Diiriye Guure's Dervish kingdom forces, and its emir Muhammad Abdullah Hassan who together successfully stormed the Ethiopian garrison at Jigjiga and recovered all their stolen herds.[4]
The British Vice-Consul at Harar reported:
"The Abyssinians, it seems, fear the Somalis very much. I have never seen men so afraid as they are now; they have given rifles to the children to show they have troops here."[5]
After the battle, The whole Ogaden region and Nugaal region was unstable, and at the disposal of either Webi authorities or Nugaal-based Dervish authorities led by Diiriye Guure, causing an international issue.[6]
References[]
- ↑ Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji (2003-02-25) (in en). Historical Dictionary of Somalia. Scarecrow Press. pp. 196. ISBN 978-0-8108-6604-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=DPwOsOcNy5YC.
- ↑ Sarkees, Meredith Reid (2010). Resort to war : a data guide to inter-state, extra-state, intra-state, and non-state wars, 1816-2007. Internet Archive. Washington, D.C. : CQ Press. pp. 282. ISBN 978-0-87289-434-1. http://archive.org/details/resorttowardatag0000sark.
- ↑ Marcus, Harold G.; Hudson, Grover (1994) (in en). New Trends in Ethiopian Studies: Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Michigan State University, 5-10 September 1994. Red Sea Press. ISBN 978-1-56902-013-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=jsZyAAAAMAAJ&q=1900+ethiopian+expedition+raided+dervish.
- ↑ Stapleton, Timothy J. (2016-11-07) (in en). Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts [2 volumes: [2 volumes]]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-59884-837-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=zkTPEAAAQBAJ&dq=dervishes+6000+1900&pg=PA480.
- ↑ Hess, Robert L. (1964). "The 'Mad Mullah' and Northern Somalia". pp. 420. Digital object identifier:10.1017/S0021853700005107. ISSN 0021-8537. JSTOR 179976. https://www.jstor.org/stable/179976.
- ↑ Lüdert, Jan; Ketzmerick, Maria; Heise, Julius (2022-11-10) (in en). The United Nations Trusteeship System: Legacies, Continuities, and Change. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-78162-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=boOKEAAAQBAJ&q=dervish+occupied+jijiga.
The original article can be found at Battle of Jigjiga (1900) and the edit history here.