Battle of Madiongo

Battle of Madiongo
	Part of the jihad of Seku Amadu
	Madiongo
Date	1827
Location	Madiongo
Result	Massina Empire victory
Belligerents
Massina Empire	Bambara Empire -Bambara state of Saro
Commanders and leaders
Goura Malado Amirou Mangal (Dienné reinforcements)	Falé Tangala of Ndokoro
Strength
Unknown	Total : 11 500+ 10 000 infantrymen 1500 cavalrymen
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Heavy (army captured)

The Battle of Madiongo was fought between in 1827 as part of the Jihad of Seku Amadu.^[1] It was fought between the forces of the Massina Empire and troops from the state of Saro allied to the Bamana Empire.^[2]

Following the Bamana Empire disastrous defeat at the battle of Noukouma, the King of Ségou, Da Monzon Diarra began to be particularly anxious about the rising power of the Fulani jihadists in the Macina. He assembled his chiefs of war in his residence and they tried to discuss about a strategy to defeat the Fulanis, they talked for six entire days and each new day they were more divided about the strategy to adopt than the one before.^[3] Da Diarra exasperated proposed to find someone else to deal with the Fulanis : "The Peul affair smells bad," he told his advisors. "We need to get rid of it by sending someone else in our place. Let each of you think until tomorrow about the means capable of winning Tyon, son of Saro Masa, and his war chiefs to our cause."^[2] A big delegation from Segu was sent to Saro and an alliance was formed, Falé Tangala of Ndokoro, a warchief of Tyon was designated to attack the Massina Empire.

^ Bintou Sanankoua, Un empire peul au xixe siècle. La Diina du Maasina, éditions Karthala ACCT, Paris, 174 p. (ISBN 978-286537234-8).
^ ^a ^b Amadou Hampâté Bâ et Jacques Daget, L'empire peul du Macina, 1818-1853, Mouton, Paris, La Haye, 1962, p. 309, ch.VII
^ Brown, William A. (1968). "Toward a Chronology for the Caliphate of Hamdullahi (Māsina)". Cahiers d'études africaines. 8 (31): 428–434. doi:10.3406/cea.1968.3136. ISSN 0008-0055.

[1] Bintou Sanankoua, Un empire peul au xixe siècle. La Diina du Maasina, éditions Karthala ACCT, Paris, 174 p. (ISBN 978-286537234-8).

[auto-2] Amadou Hampâté Bâ et Jacques Daget, L'empire peul du Macina, 1818-1853, Mouton, Paris, La Haye, 1962, p. 309, ch.VII

[3] Brown, William A. (1968). "Toward a Chronology for the Caliphate of Hamdullahi (Māsina)". Cahiers d'études africaines. 8 (31): 428–434. doi:10.3406/cea.1968.3136. ISSN 0008-0055.

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