Editing Somaliland (section)

==== Battle of Berbera ====
{{Main|British attack on Berbera (1827)}}

The first engagement between Somalis of the region and the British was in 1825 and led to hostilities,<ref name="d4IlR">{{cite book|title=Politics, Language, and Thought: The Somali Experience|year=1977|page=70|isbn=978-0-226-46791-7|publisher=9780226467917|first=David D.|last=Laitin}}</ref> ending in the [[Battle of Berbera 1827|Battle of Berbera]] and a subsequent trade agreement between the [[Habr Awal]] and the United Kingdom.<ref name="b6sTC">{{cite book|title=Royal Naval Biography: Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-officers, Superannuated Rear-admirals, Retired-captains, Post-captains, and Commanders, Whose Names Appeared on the Admiralty List of Sea Officers at the Commencement of the Present Year, Or who Have Since Been Promoted, Illustrated by a Series of Historical and Explanatory Notes ... with Copious Addenda: Captains. Commanders|year=1832|author=James Marshall|page=438|publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown}}</ref><ref name="jFVbI">Hertslet's Commercial Treaties: A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions, and Reciprocal Regulations, at Present Subsisting Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council, Concerning the Same, So Far as They Relate to Commerce and Navigation, to the Repression and Abolition of the Slave Trade, and to the Privileges and Interests of the Subjects of the High Contracting Parties, Volume 13, pg 5</ref> This was followed by a British treaty with the Governor of [[Zeila]] in 1840. An engagement was then started between the British and elders of [[Garhajis|Habar Garhajis]] and [[Habr Je'lo|Habar Toljaala]] clans of the [[Isaaq]] in 1855, followed a year later by the conclusion of the "Articles of Peace and Friendship" between the Habar Awal and [[East India Company]]. These engagements between the British and Somali clans culminated in the formal treaties the British signed with the henceforth 'British Somaliland' clans, which took place between 1884 and 1886 (treaties were signed with the Habar Awal, Gadabursi, Habar Toljaala, Habar Garhajis, Esa, and the Warsangali clans), and paved the way for the British to establish a [[protectorate]] in the region referred to as [[British Somaliland]].<ref name="vsQPx">Hugh Chisholm (ed.), ''The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information'', Volume 25, (At the University press: 1911), p.383.</ref> The British garrisoned the protectorate from [[Aden Settlement|Aden]] and administered it as part of [[British Indian Empire|British India]] until 1898. British Somaliland was then administered by the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office|Foreign Office]] until 1905, and afterwards by the [[Colonial Office]].<ref name="6ot4n">{{cite web|url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/britishsomaliland.htm|title=British Somaliland Protectorate|website=British Empire|access-date=19 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025062635/https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/britishsomaliland.htm|archive-date=25 October 2019}}</ref>