| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by MrMaestro: 6:25pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
The Yoruba version of the Battle of Thermopylae. We should turn this into a movie. Thanks for the history. |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by SouthEastFacts: 8:18pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
Christistruth00:
Liar
The Video was on the Igbos Website and it was Broadcast Live on Radio Biafra. Put the link to IPOB website. |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by Christistruth00: 8:25pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
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| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by nameo: 8:33pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
Christistruth00:
But that was the War in Which the Alaafin was killed
The Crown prince of Oyo and Eleduwe the Bariba King were also killed in that War
Oshogbo of 1840 and the Jalumi war were the real deal
At the Oshogbo War the Fulani Jihad fled all the Way to Kebbi without Stopping and Oyo People Crossed the Niger and settled in Towns all the Way to Mokwa though the Oyo and Ibadan Army remained at Jebba and didn’t Cross the Niger because they didn’t know what to expect on the other Side
The Fulani Jihad had reached kebbi before stopping because they thought the Ibadan Warriors were still Pershing them
Later on when the Emir of Kontagora started issuing threats the Oyos that gasped settled in Towns and Villages all the way to Mokwa moved back across the River Niger to the Jebba Area for safety
The Fulani quietly smuggled themselves back into Ilorin while the Yorubas was busy beating themselves up in the Kiriji War years later on and still yet the Ibadan Army still managed to inflict the Calamitous defeat of the Jalumi War on Ilorin again while the Ibadan were fighting War on 5 fronts
Aare Ogunmola of Ibadan was something else, fighting Ogedengbe and the Ekiti Parapo on one Side, beating up Ilorin on the Other, fighting Egba and Ijebu on another front at the same time as keeping Ijaye and Dahomey in Check and Ogunmola never lost any War
How did Ogunmola even manage to Sleep?
It could only have been the Grace of God towards the Yoruba it was a near impossible feat
OduduwaR how come i who you accused of being Bororo Fulani is now the one correcting your Yoruba History ? The Oyo empire had a great and astonishing military tradition. A lot of people do not know that Oyo warriors were as bad ass as Zulus or Spartans. A history of the Oyo-Damomey war would tell one very clearly. King Agaja(a capable soldier and ruler himself) got to know this 1st hand. Can anyone help with online books/materials(or links) on the militarist part of Oyo and then Ibadan as well as the war with the Fulanis. Will appreciate 3 Likes |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by SouthEastFacts: 8:35pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
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| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by Christistruth00: 8:42pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
SouthEastFacts:
That is not IPOB official page. The video was on the official IPOB and Radio Biafra Sites as well they took it down after 3 days when Ohaneze denounced them in the Media |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by Nobody: 8:42pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
OdudwaR:
The war that sent shockwaves into the heart of the old Sokoto caliphate was not Osogbo war of 1840. It was the Alaafin Oluewu's war of 1830.
This was not a war between Ilorin and Oyo...it was a war between Sokoto caliphate and Yorùbá nation in coalition with Baribas. Most of the powerful Yorùbá warrior kings and Warlords that would later prove their legends were involved in this war.
The Phalanx a coalition of vast soliders under the commands of Alaafin Oluewu, prince Atiba of Ago Oja (who would later be the next king after Oluewu), Baale of Ogbomoso, Onikoyi, Eleduwe (A king in one of the Bariba kingdoms) Jato(a general in the Borgu army whose earlier campaigns against the Futa jalon earned him a reputation). Baale of Iseyin and Baale of Saki. Kurumi of Ijaye also joined the ranks with his private militia (at this time,he was a provincial ruler).
They camped at a place called Otefan. The leaders of the expedition were Oluewu of Oyo and Eleduwe of Burgu. The Eleduwe trusted all the lesser generals. Under his command but Alaafin did not trust some of his, including of Ogbomoso and Onikoyi (Onikoyi had a long history of being controversial. He was one of the first provincial rulers of Oyo to pledge allegiance to the Emir of Ilorin)... Oluewu was careful not to put them in strategic sections in the military formations.
Sultan Belo of Sokoto (son of usman Dan Fodio) sent a much larger army of 17 warlords and their soldiers under the command of Esugoyi(ruler of the vassal state of Rabbah) to meet with much smaller army of the Emir of Ilorin. He hoped for victory in a decisive battle against Oyo and obsession to extend to the coast. The army he sent was so large that the coalition army of Oyo was outnumbered twelve to one.
Usual battle Phalanx of the southwest at the time was usually divided into three. A Phalanx stays at the center, one to the right and another to the left(this formation was usually followed religously during....that Lisabi of Egbaland used the positions to confer military titles in his militia. The Jaguna commanded the army at the center,Lukotun commanded the right flank and Lukosi commanded the left flank). In this battle,the Eleduwe fought at the center with his battle-hardened warriors.
Oluewu fought from the right and lesser rulers manned the Phalanx to the left. Eleduwe was the instant hero of the battle. As he suppressed the enemy from the center, he sent soldiers to fill the ranks on each sides at the same time to force the enemy Into the center. From the center, they greatly slaughtered the Fulani warriors and broke their ranks. They fled in different directions with the coalition army routing them as they fled and slaughtering them in thousands. As the Fulani nobles took to hero...they delegated horsemen to confront the enemies pursuing them to slow them down using the calvary advantage as they escaped. The victory was decisive but came with its casualties as well, Eleduwe lost his son in the war.
After this war,the Sokoto caliphate gave up on annexing Yorùbáland and the combats went back to tensions between Ilorin and Oyo.
Culled from: https://twitter.com/tyewoolove/status/1387737973907726337
I think Fulanis tried again twice with Ilorin Emirate after the fall of Oyo during the Oshogbo and Jalumi wars but they were defeated by Ibadan army.
And this didn't stopped the mission of the caliphate in Oyo! |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by VEHINTOLAR: 9:06pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
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| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by oyatz(m): 1:00pm On May 12, 2021 |
OdudwaR:
I won't call them superb administrators. They're the masters of deceit who had religion, which is the opiate of the masses, at their disposal. So it was easy for them to use the brainwashing tool to galvanize religious people.
However, they lost most of those wars and offered little or no resistance to the colonizers when they came although they were able to use that to make the colonizers install emirs in places where they were defeated. Apart from Hausas, and parts of Nupes, they didn't really do much. They studied Islamic History and Jurisprudence which were used to conquered and administered vast territories despite the fact that they were a minority non-indigenes. The Sokoto Caliphate fought with the British Colonialists until they were defeated. Try to read the History of Sultan Attahiru-1 and his fights against the British until he was purseued and killed in 1903 around Ashaka, now in Gombe State. He and his lietenants died fighting. Because of this heavy resistance and wars , the British after their conquest changed the title from Caliph (Kalifa Russulihah, Amir El Musulimi) to Sultan in 1903. 1 Like |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by Nobody: 2:43pm On May 12, 2021 |
NwaAro:
At the end they got what they wanted which was ILORIN, and nothing else matters... every other yarns na story for the gods. Thanks for this info by you, I now realise Ilorin is a coastal town. I'll try to check the location where the Satan of Sokoto dipped the Koran in the ocean as he got to Ilorin beach. |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by Nobody: 2:45pm On May 12, 2021 |
joyandfaith:
Fulanis are good at using deceptive tactics to subdue others. Ilorin, hausa and kanuri are victims of fulani deception. Fulanis are actually cowards. Why do you think they always attack soft targets? Or why do they usually attack villages deep in the night? |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by cocolacec(m): 12:51pm On Aug 13, 2022 |
Hmm |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by waynetee(m): 11:39am On Jul 13, 2023 |
Hmm |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by T8ksy(m): 12:41pm On Jul 13, 2023 |
MrMaestro:
The Yoruba version of the Battle of Thermopylae. We should turn this into a movie. Thanks for the history. Be ni o! I wholeheartedly endorse this motion. We should narrate our own history for our future generations to learn from. |
| Re: Battle Of Otefan 1830: The Battle Where Oyo Defeated Sokoto Caliphate by laiperi: 10:00pm On Sep 13, 2023 |
Christistruth00:
But that was the War in Which the Alaafin was killed
The Crown prince of Oyo and Eleduwe the Bariba King were also killed in that War
Oshogbo of 1840 and the Jalumi war were the real deal
At the Oshogbo War the Fulani Jihad fled all the Way to Kebbi without Stopping and Oyo People Crossed the Niger and settled in Towns all the Way to Mokwa though the Oyo and Ibadan Army remained at Jebba and didn’t Cross the Niger because they didn’t know what to expect on the other Side
The Fulani Jihad had reached kebbi before stopping because they thought the Ibadan Warriors were still Pershing them
Later on when the Emir of Kontagora started issuing threats the Oyos that gasped settled in Towns and Villages all the way to Mokwa moved back across the River Niger to the Jebba Area for safety
The Fulani quietly smuggled themselves back into Ilorin while the Yorubas was busy beating themselves up in the Kiriji War years later on and still yet the Ibadan Army still managed to inflict the Calamitous defeat of the Jalumi War on Ilorin again while the Ibadan were fighting War on 5 fronts
Aare Ogunmola of Ibadan was something else, fighting Ogedengbe and the Ekiti Parapo on one Side, beating up Ilorin on the Other, fighting Egba and Ijebu on another front at the same time as keeping Ijaye and Dahomey in Check and Ogunmola never lost any War
How did Ogunmola even manage to Sleep?
It could only have been the Grace of God towards the Yoruba it was a near impossible feat
OduduwaR how come i who you accused of being Bororo Fulani is now the one correcting your Yoruba History ? |
