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245 10 Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland|h[Elektronisk 
       resurs] /|cRoy Irons 
264  1 |bPen and Sword,|c2022 
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520    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 taken from the 
       feeble grasp of an Egyptian monarch, and to secure that 
       port, treaties were concluded with the fierce and warlike 
       nomad tribes who roamed the inhospitable wastes of the 
       hinterland, unequivocally granting them 'the gracious 
       favour and protection of the Queen'. But there arose in 
       that wilderness a man of deep and unalterable convictions;
       the Sayyid, the 'Mad Mullah', who utilised his great 
       poetic and oratorical gifts with merciless and unrelenting
       fury to convince his fellow nomads to follow him in an 
       anti- Christian and anti-colonial crusade. At great 
       expense, four Imperial expeditions were sent to crush him 
       and to support his terrified opponents; four times the 
       military genius of the Sayyid eluded them.

It
       was at this point that the rising voice of Winston 
       Churchill convinced his Liberal colleagues to abandon the 
       expensive contest and retreat to the coast. By this 
       betrayal, one third of the British 'protected' population 
       perished.

It wasn't until after the Great War
       that Churchill, now Minister for both War and Air, as well
       as a major influence in the rise of Air Power, was able to
       redeem this betrayal. The part he played in the 
       destruction of the Sayyid's temporal power at this point 
       was substantial, and the preservation of the Royal Air 
       Force was also secured. By unleashing Sir Hugh Trenchard 
       and giving his blessing to a lightning campaign, his 
       original betrayal was considered to be redeemed in part 
       and his honour belatedly and inexpensively restored.&
       #8232;
In this enthralling volume, Roy Irons brings 
       to life this period of dynamic unrest, drawing together a 
       number of historical accounts of the time as well as an 
       evocative selection of illustrative materials, including 
       maps and portraits of the main players at the forefront of
       the action. Personalities such as Carton de Wiart, Lord 
       Ismay, and the much decorated Sir John 'Johnny' Gough, VC,
       KCB, CHG feature, as do the vaunted Camel Corps, in this 
       eminently well-researched narrative account of this 
       eventful and controversial episode of world history.&
       #8232;
As featured in Essence Magazine. [Elib] 
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