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- ↑ Ministero della Guerra, Comando del Corpo di S.M./Ufficio Storico: SOMALIA, Vol. I, Dalle Original 1914, Roma, 1938- XVI, pp. 308, 309, 315, 318, 319.
- ↑ Caroselli, op. cit. 78-9.
- ↑ Official history of the operations in Somaliland, 1901–04 by Great Britain. War Office. General Staff Published 1907.p.56
- ↑ Imperialismo e resistenza in corno d'Africa: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan e il derviscismo somalo (1899-1920)p.198
- ↑ Caroselli, Francesco Saverio (1931). "Ferro e fuoco in Somalia".
- ↑ Official History of the Operations in Somaliland. 1901–1904 Vol. I p. 54
- ↑ Ministero della Guerra, Comando del Corpo di S.M./Ufficio Storico: SOMALIA, Vol. I, Dalle Original 1914, Roma, 1938- XVI, pp. 308, 309, 315, 318, 319.