Warsangeli defection to the Dervishes signaled renewed warfare

Evidence

At the same time, Sayyid Muhammad was pursuing a minor and rather desultory war against Yusuf ‘Ali, the Sultan of Obbia who, though changeable and equivocal in his attachments, was during this period generally hostile to the Dervishes. Not so the Warsangeli clan within the British Protectorate on the eastern coast, who, under their spirited leader Garad Mahamud ‘Ali Shirre (d. 1960), had now decided to throw in their lot with the Dervishes and in January 1908 fired on a British dhow as it was landing on their coast. This incident provoked a hostile exchange of letters with the Consul at Berbera and it was evident that the Dervishes would soon be on the march again. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 223

Categorization

• XREF: The Warsangeli joining the Dervishes triggers a new escalation against the British. — connects to: France tacitly tolerated arms reaching the Dervishes to weaken Britain; British peace assumed the Dervishes were no longer a serious threat — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 221; The Dervish holy war backfired by entrenching alien rule deeper — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 259 (+2 more)

Related

• France tacitly tolerated arms reaching the Dervishes to weaken Britain (similarity 0.89)
• The Dervish war left British Somaliland undeveloped and bitterly mistrustful (similarity 0.84)
• The Dervish holy war backfired by entrenching alien rule deeper (similarity 0.83)
• The Dervish holy war strengthened alien rule rather than ending it (similarity 0.83)
• Britain’s Somaliland empire grew as an unintended consequence of the Dervish war (similarity 0.82)
• British peace assumed the Dervishes were no longer a serious threat (similarity 0.82)
• The Dervish army broke with Somali clan organization to build unity (similarity 0.81)
• The Dervish war failed to alter Italian colonial ambitions in Somalia (similarity 0.78)
• The Dervish war did not deflect Italian colonial plans or aims (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• British peace assumed the Dervishes were no longer a serious threat #contradicts (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 221
• The Dervish war left British Somaliland undeveloped and bitterly mistrustful #expands (0.50)
• The Dervish holy war backfired by entrenching alien rule deeper #complicates (0.40) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 259
• Britain’s Somaliland empire grew as an unintended consequence of the Dervish war #complicates (0.40)