Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



command. Lugard entered Uganda in December, 

 and in 1891, at the head of the Baganda, with 

 Soudanese and Zanzibar levies, traversed the north 

 of Ankole through Unyoro, defeating all opposition 

 and gaining a decisive victory over the Arabs, near 

 Kowar, on the 7th May. 



Freed from immediate fear of the war- like 

 Muhammadans the two Christian parties again took 

 to bitter quarrelling among themselves, and when 

 Lugard returned at the end of 1891 from a success- 

 ful expedition to Kavalli's in search of Emin Pasha's 

 Soudanese, left in Equatoria by H. M. Stanley, the 

 killing of a Protestant by a Roman Catholic at 

 Mengo, which was supported by the king, led to 

 fighting in the early part of January 1892. The 

 king attacked Lugard in his fort at Kampala, but 

 was repulsed and compelled to fly to Bulingugwe 

 Island, whence he was driven, and fled to the 

 German frontier. After much fighting and the 

 capture of Sese Island by Williams, a treaty of 

 peace was signed on the 30th March, 1892, and 

 Mwanga returned to Mengo. 



By this treaty liberal conditions were offered 

 to the French or Roman Catholic party, and the 

 British flag was hoisted over the capital. In the 

 previous year the British East Africa Company, 

 finding they could not maintain their position, had 

 already ordered Lugard to evacuate the country. 

 Thanks to funds raised by the Church Missionary 

 Society, the move was postponed until 1892, when 

 Lugard left for England to appeal against it. The 



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