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Name: Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate

Type: Event

Start: 1902 AD

End: 1903 AD

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Was a British military expedition that led to the fall of the Sokoto Caliphate and its partition between Great Britain and Germany.

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  • March 1903: At the grand market square of Sokoto, the last Vizier of the Sokoto Caliphate officially surrendered to British forces. The Caliphate was partitioned between great Britain, France and Germany in accordance with the borders decided at the Berlin Conference.
  • January 1902: The British occupied the city of Sokoto.
  • February 1902: In January 1902, German colonial officer Hans Dominik defeated the remaining troops of Sokoto Emir Djubayru in the battle of Miskin-Maroua, which brought most of the Adamaua region under German rule.

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