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so you are blaming it all on the Ottomans now?

So you mean that the dervish only had the few hundred rifles and 2 machine guns as their entire arsenal?
This is well documented by many sources, there was only 1 shipment from harar , before they could send another shipment Lij yasu was deposed and you had empress zwaditu and haille sellasie in charge.

1 single small shipment from the Otoomans and you blame the loss of the war on them????

is that logical?

Supply was not the problem it was the lack of support of the people...

gurey25 wrote:
so you are blaming it all on the Ottomans now?

So you mean that the dervish only had the few hundred rifles and 2 machine guns as their entire arsenal?
This is well documented by many sources, there was only 1 shipment from harar , before they could send another shipment Lij yasu was deposed and you had empress zwaditu and haille sellasie in charge.

1 single small shipment from the Otoomans and you blame the loss of the war on them????

is that logical?

Supply was not the problem it was the lack of support of the people...

His support base was Daarood and they were with him. I mean you need to come up some form of evidence if you want to prove your claim. The end result was the British being the victor of the 1st war world, the defeat of the Ottoman and German empires, the assault of British land and aerial assault in Jiidali and Taleex, and the Smallpox and Rinderpest diseases that wiped out at least half of the remaining Dervishes were the reasons the Dervishes movement collapsed.

Just inventing history won't cut it

From what I heard to begin with he was on a reasonable track with an agenda and the broad support of many clans (including Dhulbahante, Ogaden and Isaaw)gainst of the british colonials. Then towards the end he went a bit crazy and turned against the locals and then the people turned against him.

A bit like Siad barre, good for a while and then he turned against the people, and the people turned against him.