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This book is dedicated to my wife and best friend Erica Rae Irons NNEB 13 September 1947 to 7 August 2010 A woman of great independence of mind and spirit, always true to herself, whose love, compassion, strength and humour enthralled and empowered children, delighted and inspirited her family and friends, and forever captivated, and mended, her husband; to whom she was everything. For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Pen & Sword Military an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd 47 Church Street Barnsley South Yorkshire S70 2AS Copyright © Roy Irons 2013 ISBN 978 1 78346 380 0 eISBN 9781473832268 The right of Roy Irons to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing. Typeset in Ehrhardt by Mac Style, Driffield, East Yorkshire Printed and bound in the UK by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CRO 4YY Pen & Sword Books Ltd incorporates the imprints of Pen & Sword Archaeology, Atlas, Aviation, Battleground, Discovery, Family History, History, Maritime, Military, Naval, Politics, Railways, Select, Social History, Transport, True Crime, and Claymore Press, Frontline Books, Leo Cooper, Praetorian Press, Remember When, Seaforth Publishing and Wharncliffe. For a complete list of Pen & Sword titles please contact PEN & SWORD BOOKS LIMITED 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AS, England E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Contents Maps Foreword Chapter 1 The Somalis Chapter 2 The European World Supremacy and the Coming of the British Protectorate Chapter 3 War with the Sayyid - The First Expedition Chapter 4 With the Abyssinians Chapter 5 War with the Sayyid - The Second Expedition Chapter 6 War with the Sayyid - The Third Expedition Chapter 7 War with the Sayyid - The Fourth Expedition Chapter 8 Enter the Giant Chapter 9 The Triumph of the Giant Chapter 10 The War Renewed and the Battle of Dul Madoba Chapter 11 Birth and Re-birth: The Flying Corps and the Camel Corps Chapter 12 Deus Ex Machina Chapter 13 The End of the Sayyid Chapter 14 Retrospect Selected Bibliography Maps Somaliland and the Horn of Africa The Somali Clans Somaliland - The Principal Tribes The First Expedition The Second Expedition The Third Expedition The Fourth Expedition Somaliland and the Ogaden Somaliland and the Ogaden, physical geography Somaliland and the Horn of Africa. The Somali Clans. Somaliland - The Principal Tribes.

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In the late nineteenth century, the British Empire commanded the seas and possessed a vast Indian Empire, as well as other extensive dominions in South East Asia, Australasia, America and Africa. To secure the trade route to the glittering riches of the orient, the port of Berbera in Somaliland was
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