Columbian Jihad (St. George's Night)

Columbian Jihad
Part of St. George's Night
Aniyunwiyan troops burn a colonial farm near the Venetian settlement of Nasso.
Date 1700-1720s Location Central Columbia; primarily the Mississippi Valley Result Colonial victory Slowing of colonization Eventual colonial revolts Indigenous Columbian states established west of the Mississippi
Belligerents
Negushwa's Confederation Myami Illinois Aniyunwiya Choctaw Muskogee Catawba Lenape Apache Dakota Shawnee Members of other peoples Mostanqi exiles Gharnajada	Colonial powers Anglia Aunisia Burgundy Castile Scutari Portugal Gharnajada (after 1712)

The Columbian Jihad was a major religious conflict fought in the New World in the mid-1700s. It represented a backlash against colonial expansion by indigenous peoples, who were aided by defeated Muslim colonists who had, in the Second Carib War, been stripped of much of their territory and power a decade earlier. The religious leader Negushwa assembled a confederation of many Columbian tribes, who had largely been driven, by this time, west of the Mississippi. Negushwa drew on Muslim proselytization among the native Columbians, and on native Columbian traditions, proclaiming himself Mahdi and vowing to expel the colonial powers from the continent. He was aided by refugees fleeing the Burgundian conquest of Muslim Mostanqia, and by the still-surviving Rumelian colony of Gharnajada. Initially, Negushwa enjoyed initial success, defeating a Castilian-Burgundian alliance and conquering much of the two powers' colonial territories. However, when Anglia, Portugal and the newly independent ex-Venetian colony of Nasso joined the war, and when his Muslim allies largely defected, fearing that they might be attacked next, Negushwa was defeated and killed, and his confederation disintegrated. However, the Jihad was successful at slowing colonial expansion, facilitating the establishment of the native Columbian state of Dakota, where his ideas maintain widespread influence.