Somaliland campaign

Somaliland campaign
	Part of the Scramble for Africa; and World War I (1914–1918)
	; Aerial bombardment of Dervish forts in Taleh in February 1920
Date	1896/1900–1922; (24–26 years)
Location	British Somaliland and Ogaden
Result	Dervish movement Defeat
Belligerents
British Empire; Italy; Ethiopian Empire (1900–1904); and (1914-1915)	Dervish movement; Supported by: Ottoman Empire; Ethiopia (1915–1916); ; German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Eric John Eagles Swayne; Richard Corfield †; Brigadier-General Sir William Henry Manning; Robert Gordon; Giacomo De Martino; Menelik II;	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan; Haji Sudi †; Nur Ahmed Aman; Ismail Mire;
Strength
30,000 28,000	~25,000
Casualties and losses
200 British soldiers killed ; 1,700 KAR 3,000 Ethiopian soldiers killed	4,000 dervishes killed
	100,000–150,000 Somali civilians killed

The Somaliland campaign, also called the Anglo-Somali War or the Dervish rebellion, was a series of military expeditions that took place between 1900 and 1920 in modern-day Somaliland. The British were assisted in their offensives by the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.

The Dervish led by Sayid Muhammed Abdullah Hassan, continued independently from about (24–26) years between 1896/1900–1921. The Dervish movement had successfully repulsed the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region.,

With the defeat of the Ottoman and German empires in World War I, the Dervish movement lacked any allies. The British thus turned their attention to the Dervishes, who launched a massive combined arms offensive on their strongholds of the Taleh forts. The British also aerially bombed the Dervish capital of Taleh, bringing the conflict to an end.