HISTORY OF THE PROTECTORATE TERRITORIES 2:« 



agent of the chartered company. Liigard marched straight on .Mengo, 

 refusing to listen to ^Nlwanga's attempts at temporising and delay. He 

 proposed a new treaty to ^Nlwanga, which was for some time opposed by the 

 French faction, but suddenly agreed to and signed on December 26th, 

 1891 1. < hi the following day (December 27th) arrived the fi rst Engli sh 

 Bislio)) of Uganda who ever took up his re.siden ce in that^ counjxy, 

 Bis hop Alfred Tucke r, who holds that position to this day. Following o n 

 this treaty of Lu gard's came, however, a civil war between tiie Koma n 

 Cat holics and Anglicans, culminating in an attack by ^Iwanga's adherents 

 on the small fort which Lugard had been allowe d t o build at Kampa la, 

 a suburb of ^ fen g o. 



Prior to this outbreak the ^luliammadan ex-king of Uganda died of 

 smallpox, but a successor had been chosen in the person of ^Nlbogo, and 

 a serious raid had been made by the Muhammadans on the central 

 districts of Uganda. Captain Lugard n^arched with a contingent o f 

 Bag anda under the present prim e minister, Apolo Kagwa, against t he 

 co mbined forces of the ^Nluhammadan Baganda and the Banvor o. He 

 inflicted a severe defeat on the Muhammadans, but had resolved, never- 

 theless, on the bold project of proceeding to the west coast of Lake 

 Albert and taking over all the ex-Sudanese soldiers of Emin's jn'ovince, 

 who were established at Kavali's under Selim Bey. The ultimate result 

 was that Captain Lugard brought Selim Bey, his 400 or 500 Sudanese 

 soldiers, and a rabble of some 7,000 wives, followers, and children, into 

 South Toro, where he established them in the newly created kingdom 

 over which he had placed Kasagama (the present king), who was a prince 

 of the Unyoro royal family. 



Afte r Lugard returned to Me ngo in 1 ^2 the long-brewin g trouble 

 b etween Cath olics and Protestants finallylburst o ut in civil wa v. Lugardj s 

 fort on the hill ^at Kampala was a ttacked by the Frenchpartv' (as the 

 Eoman Cathohcs styled themselves)^ 'Cke__si t nation was sa ved by his 

 Maxim gun, which repelled the att ack of thousands. Mwanga fled, as he 

 always did when war broke out, andlEe flag'7)Fl:he Imperial British East 

 Africa Company was hoisted over his reed palace at ]\leugo. ^Mwanga took 

 refuge with the French missionaries on the island of Bulingugwe. This 

 island was attacked by Lugard and Captain Williams (his military 

 assistant), and iNIwanga then fled to the German frontier. A^ er neg otia- 

 t ions that wprp fntilp, and much shil1y-shRl1j iriPV;_ ^w;mgn ret urned to 

 Af engo. mid bfomnp re conciled to Lugard. After making an attempt to 

 settle the ^Muhammadan problem by winning over the Aluhammadan 

 representative of the royal family of Uganda (Mbogo) to the British side, 

 Lugard finally left Uganda in the middle of 1892, having, it may be 

 truly said, effected very wonderful things with very small resources. It 



