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	1900–1920; (20 years)
Location	Somaliland
Result	British-Italian victory Collapse of the Dervish movement; Consolidation of British Somaliland; Consolidation of Italian Somaliland;
Belligerents
British Empire; Italy; Ethiopia (1900–1904)	Dervish movement; Supported by:; Ottoman Empire (1915–1918); Ethiopia (1915–1916)
Commanders and leaders
Eric John Eagles Swayne; Richard Corfield †; Robert Gordon; Giacomo De Martino; Menelik II	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan; Haji Sudi †; Nur Ahmed Aman; Ismail Mire
Casualties and losses
200 British dead 1,700 assorted ethnicities KAR	4,000 dead
	100,000–150,000 Somali civilians killed

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

During the First World War (1914–1918), the Dervish leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan received support for a time from the Ottoman Empire and the Ethiopian emperor-designate Lij Iyasu. The conflict ended when the British aerially bombed the Dervish capital of Taleh in February 1920.

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