KemetLeadsTheir words
“I have no forts, no houses, no country. I have no cultivated fields, no silver or gold for you to take. … All you can get from me is war, nothing else.”
As reported by Douglas Jardine · Letter “to the English people”, 1903, in The Mad Mullah of Somaliland (1923), pp. 122–123 (translated from Arabic)
Context Written as his Dervish forces slipped past British columns during the 1903 Somaliland campaign, the letter offered peace or war and told the British to leave his country.
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