Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and locations
- Sketch maps
- 1 Prologue: survey and agenda
- 2 Statecraft: external intrusion and local dominion
- 3 Ferment: conversion and revolution in Buganda
- 4 Upcountry: might-have-beens and the Buganda/Uganda outcome
- 5 Warbands: new military formations and ground level imperialism
- 6 Paramountcy: Toro, Busoga and the new overlords
- 7 Defeat: Kabalega's resistance, Mwanga's revolt and the Sudanese mutiny
- 8 Succession: Nkore and the war of Igumira's eye
- 9 Dénouement: aggregations and rulerships
- 10 Government: colonial settlements and the Buganda model
- 11 Capstone: honour, awe and imperialism
- 12 Round up and review
- Select bibliography
- Index
7 - Defeat: Kabalega's resistance, Mwanga's revolt and the Sudanese mutiny
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and locations
- Sketch maps
- 1 Prologue: survey and agenda
- 2 Statecraft: external intrusion and local dominion
- 3 Ferment: conversion and revolution in Buganda
- 4 Upcountry: might-have-beens and the Buganda/Uganda outcome
- 5 Warbands: new military formations and ground level imperialism
- 6 Paramountcy: Toro, Busoga and the new overlords
- 7 Defeat: Kabalega's resistance, Mwanga's revolt and the Sudanese mutiny
- 8 Succession: Nkore and the war of Igumira's eye
- 9 Dénouement: aggregations and rulerships
- 10 Government: colonial settlements and the Buganda model
- 11 Capstone: honour, awe and imperialism
- 12 Round up and review
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Parallel to the unfolding of these developments in Toro and Busoga, there was a very different story in Bunyoro. In Toro, Ashburnham and Sitwell variously employed force majeure against several leading Batoro figures, as on a number of occasions Grant did likewise in Busoga. In Toro, however, there was never any armed clash between the British and Batoro – all the fighting there took place between British-led mercenaries and Kabalega's Bunyoro armies – while in Busoga there were never more than three or four brief skirmishes during the course of Williams' expedition there in mid 1892. By contrast, Bunyoro between 1893 and 1899 suffered a long-drawn out colonial war. (See Map 2.) It took the form of one of the three distinctive styles of armed opposition to the British which these years were to see: Bunyoro found itself thrust into a fluctuating case of ‘primary resistance’; in 1897, Kabaka Mwanga launched a ‘post-pacification revolt’; while, shortly afterwards, three companies of the Sudanese mercenaries ‘mutinied’. By 1898, these three coincided to comprise the most formidable opposition which the British enterprise in Uganda ever confronted. For some months its fate lay in the balance. By 1899, however, all three had been decisively defeated, leaving scars behind, particularly in Bunyoro, which were never really healed. Amid the fabrication of a new colonial polity, defeat was a coruscating outcome for a great many people.
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- Fabrication of EmpireThe British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890–1902, pp. 184 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009