Battle of Miskin-Maroua
| date | 18.-21. January 1902 |
|---|---|
| place | Maroua |
| output | German victory |
| consequences | Enforcement of German colonial rule in North Cameroon |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
|
Amir Djubayru b. Aadama |
First Lieutenant Hans Dominik |
| losses | |
|
500 - 800 men |
2 men |
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The battle of Miskin-Maroua (January 18-21 , 1902) was the decisive military conflict between the Fulbe army of Amir Djubayru b. Aadama and the German Schutztruppe that sealed German rule over the north of the colony of Cameroon .
course
Operations on the German side was headed by First Lieutenant Hans Dominik , who had only two officers, 90 rifles and a machine gun . A Fulbe cavalry , wrapped in a cloud of dust, rode towards the colonial troops . Dominik ordered to shoot standing in a line of fire, as cotton bushes lay between the opponents. Targeted shots from the breech-loaders and rapid fire from the machine gun succeeded in repelling the outnumbered Fulbe. Countless dead and injured remained in the Maroua plain.
consequences
Between 500 and 800 men were killed on the Fulbe side. Djubayru fled to the Mandara Mountains on the border with Nigeria. After the fighting, Dominik occupied the important Fulani center of Marua in order to gradually subjugate other regional rulers to German rule from there. With the military defeat and expulsion of Djubayru as the spiritual and political overlord of the Fulbe in Adamaua , the German colonial administration dissolved the historical ties to the Fulbe center of Yola . It replaced this with the connection to the seat of the later Adamaua residence in Garua as a new political and economic regional center.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilfried Westphal: History of the German Colonies. Gondrom, Bindlach 1991, ISBN 3-8112-0905-1 , p. 188.
literature
- Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914. Cuvillier, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86727-472-2 .
- Wilfried Westphal: A world empire for the emperor - history of the German colonies. Parkland, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-88059-997-1 .