All the three Fulani attacks on Osogbo were repelled through Brotherliness Alliance of Courageous Yoruba Youths that came from Ekiti, Ondo, Ilesha, Ajashe Ipo, Epe, Oyo, Sango, Abeokuta, Ogbomosho, etc and United at Ibadan in Yoruba Brotherly Solidarity to Protect our Yoruba Females, Children and Elderly from the Enemies of Yoruba People and Land.

The battle of 1840 is believed to have forever proven the fact that United Yorubas People can never be conquered. This is why the Enemies never try again try to engage Yorubas in direct Warfare but rather use Religion, Politics, Tradition, Money, etc to brainwash the few shallow-minded gullibles ones among them to become Yoruba Traitors and Betrayers. Yoruba must urgently united to fiercely rise up to mercilessly kill any Yoruba that betrayed Yoruba Land or Yorubaness because if Afonja was quickly killed after it was initially discovered that he has become a Betral of Yoruba Land, Ilorin would have still fully remain Yoruba Land till today and for all Yoruba future Generations.

Osogbo War of 1840: The historic year Yorubas broke the Fulani invincibility

After the Fulanis deceitfully used Religion to systematically captured Ilorin via the treason of Afonja the Field Marshall of the Oyo Empire, the Fulanis together with Malians and Hausa immigrants made Ilorin their territory. They had immense resistance from some Yoruba Ilorin muslims which led to the ransacking of the Old Oyo Empire in 1835.

For administrative reasons, the fleeing Oyo citizens relocated the Oyo administrative center from Oyo Ile to the present Oyo Ago. The Alaafin devolved the military power of the Yoruba Army into the hands of Yoruba Youthful Garrison Commanders like Ogunmola, Kurunmi, Timi and Soun.

The Fulani had sworn to dip their sword of Jihad into the Atlantic ocean and they were still not satisfied with their victory ;they wished to extend their rules deep into the heart of Yoruba land and annex the whole coastal Ancestral Cities of Yoruba Land into the Sokoto Caliphate.

Thus in 1840, they set to capture Osogbo, a Yoruba town. The Fulanis, under the command of Ali, the Hausa General of Ilorin, laid siege on Osogbo. The Fulani got help from the Sokoto Caliphate and other Arab Tuareg mercenaries from across the Sahel.

The major war agenda of Sokoto caliphate was to destroy the Oyo monarchy and civilization completely before destroying all other Yoruba kingdoms for total subjugation just like the way they destroyed the Hausa civilization.

The Fulani army could not pass through the Ogbomoso axis and Oke Ogun axis because the Ogbomoso army led by the Soun and Kurunmi Ajadi of Ijaye had blocked and sealed off that route making it impossible for them to launch any attack from the rear. When the king of Osogbo realized that the Ilorin were too strong for the Osogbo army, he summoned the Ibadans for help. Ibadan immediately sent some auxiliaries to Osogbo under the command of Obele alias Mobitan, and Alade Abimpagun.


As this force could not stop the Ilorin, another contingent was sent to Osogbo under a more experienced leader. But still the Fulanis-controlled Ilorin army won every battle and gained more ground . The Fulani controlled Osogbo for two years before the Oyo army led by Ibadan came to the battlefield. When the Ibadan realized that the Fualni-controlled Ilorin army were becoming more threatening to Yoruba Land, they sent a large and stronger force under Balogun Oderinlo to crush the intruding forces and Jammas of Ilorin.

When Oderinlo and his men arrived at the battlefield, they realized that things had gone worse than they thought. They could not show their faces in the open field because they wisely Concluded that they have to first Device Advance Warfare Strategy against the Ilorin horses' riding Fulanis army, and for about 20 days after their arrival at Osogbo, they did not fight outside the town thickets. Oderinlo suggested that Elepo, a brave Youthful Ibadan Warrior was badly needed at the war front . Elepo had been rejected by the war chiefs of Ibadan for his actions at the late Agbamaja expedition. As soon as the message from Oderinlo reached Ibadan, the Bashorun wished he could send Elepo to Osogbo but could not go against the wish of other war chiefs .

The Bashorun gave Elepo a cow to worship his god, Ori, and pray for the victory of Ibadan at the war front . At the war front, the Ibadan could not attack the Ilorin during the day because Osogbo was practically in a plain and the Ilorin horses might have advantage of them with disastrous results They decided to attack the Ilorin at dusk when they would not be able to use their horses.

About 2pm the well prepared Prepared Yoruba Army left the gate of Osogbo for the battlefield. They were to keep a strict watch and arrest anyone suspected to be a Spy or Traitor. About a mile from the Ilorin camp , they halted and arranged the order of the attack.

The Osogbo army and the earlier auxiliaries were to handle the center of the battlefield, chiefs Abitiko and Labuju were to command the right wing, Balogun Oderinlo with the rest of the Yoruba Youthful Generalissimos were to form the left wing of the army. The Ilorin camp was then attacked at mightnight . The watchword was "Elo ni owo odo?" (How much is the ferry fare).

The reason why this watchword was chosen was because the river Osun had to be crossed before entering Osogbo from the South, and anyone who could not tell this was likely to be an enemy. enemy. Stampede engulfed the Ilorin camp as the Yoruba A mercilessly slaughtered the Enemies and massively set their camp on fire. The Ilorin could not offer the slightest resistance; they were smoked with the gunpowder of the Ibadan guns.

Hundreds of Thousands of the Sokoto Caliphate Soldiers were slaughtered that day and thousands sold into slavery. This attack was a Success for the Ibadan Army of United Yorubas . Some Ilorin war chiefs were captured in the attack and became eternal slaves of the Great Yorubas.

This was and shall forver still remain a huge Victory for the whole of Yoruba Land, because the Children of those that Won the War are not Bastards or Cowards. History repeats itself, we are now fully United beyond Religion, Politics, Tradition, Money, and other things they used to divide and weaken us in the interim. We shall arise and do it again whenever need be!

Yoruba United in Yorubaness Forever!

Kudos to omo oduduwa

Interesting.

@OP, I believe you got the history from the work of Rev. Johnson?
If you read the book very well, you will discover that not all Yorubas actually united to fight the Fulanis, many tribes such as the Ijeshas and the Ekitis surprisingly worked with the Fulanis to fight the Ibadans (the Ibadan was actually trying to oppress the Ijesha and the Ekitis, at that time) and the Ibadans actually punished the Ijeshas after the Osogbo war, for aligning with the Fulanis to fight them!
The above, notwithstanding, Yorubas are still very much one, whether Oyos, Ijebus, Ijeshas, Egbas, etc. Many Ijesha military and civil people migrated and settled in Ibadan, the great generalissimo of Ijeshaland, Ogedengbe, who terrorised the Ibadans, was actually trained by the Ibadan Army and he severally escaped being hanged in Ibadan due to connections he had with other prominent military officers!

Ok

Nice one.. The Jihad is far from over. It only shapeshift.

Nigeria is a british fulani project

Afonja selfishness made him to lose ilorin if not, the boundary would have extended beyond kogi border.

YorubaYouth:
"Yorubaness is all about being Born as Yoruba and being Ready to do whatever it takes to make ALL Yoruba Lives better."

Yoruba Youth should unite and change all the brown roofs and old mud houses in all Yoruba towns and villages.


Appears when Yorubas achieve success they all run away from modernizing their towns and villages...citing fear of village people

So insightful

Very interesting it's good the yoruba won that battle or else if they had lost we will be having an emir of Ibadan

Good this made my day

But the problem now is the descendants of these great Men can't do shit.
The are mostly cowards although they brags a lot but can't do shit and most of them are weak.
Will never forget the day a fulani Man killed a Yoruba Man in a Yoruba Market, instead of dealing with the fulani man everybody ran away. Boom! Everyone pretend not happened.

Those warriors are ancestor now, what about the current generation? can they also do the same if the needs arise? are the current generation ready to fight and defend their land? Nowadays, the average yoruba man is more concerned about his stomach and most importantly his life than his love for his fatherland. no one cares anymore, If yoruba land is besiege today, im sure many will run away and take refuge elsewhere, forming woke metality is the real thing now, hence they have thrown away their culture and traditions, how pathetic! The indians call their country '"motherland'" because of great love they have for their country. such should also be the case here .
It is high time the yorubas realised that their land is besieged politically, econmically and security wise, they should wise up and protect their land before being hijacked . even if you japa, you will still find your way home las las. abo oro la n so fomoluabi.......