Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate
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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.
Chronology
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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.
The Kano Emirate, in northern Nigeria, was conquered by the British after a military expedition.
March 1903: Kano Vizier Ahmadu Mai Shahada and much of the Kano Cavalry was ambushed and defeated by British forces at Katarkwashi (Battle of Kano, 1903). The Vizier died, and the 7th emir of Kano was exiled. The British made Kano an important administrative centre and kept most of the Emirates institutions in the form of the Kano Emirate Council subject to the British Colony of Northern Nigeria.
