Somaliland Paperback – November 28, 2001

Mohammed Abdille Hassan, sometimes referred to by contemporaries as the "Mad Mullah," was a mystic and warrior who tormented the British in Somaliland during the first the decades of the twentieth century. Mr. Hamilton accompanied British operations aimed at the Mullah and here offers a personal account of four operations (1901-1904) against the Mullah. One problem was coming to grips with an elusive enemy who frequently chose to avoid the British columns. Equally trying were the difficulties of obtaining enough camels to move in the desert and finding sufficient water to survive. Nevertheless, there were clashes with the Mullah's forces and an occasional minor disaster. What was accomplished? Mr. Hamilton tells it best. The moral of these operations was when "scouring untapped and waterless wildernesses, and coping with fanatical hordes who have risen from the soil itself, the success achieved by civilized troops will rarely show any adequate proportion to the heroism of the attempt." Copies of the first edition of this are readily available, but moderately expensive.There is a good modern biography of the Mullah. Beachey, The Warrior Mullah.

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