Ahmed al-Ghazali was captured in June 1902, blinded and then executed, making Dud Murra the undisputed ruler.

[6] The French had defeated and killed the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr, who had taken control of the former Bornu Empire in the west of the Lake Chad region, in the Battle of Kousséri on 22 April 1900.

[3] Their goal was to defeat the Sanusiya, powerful traders in the eastern Sahara, and to replace local rulers who opposed them with puppets.

[2] The Daju Sultan of Dar Sila sent a letter to Fort Lamy offering his submission directly, in a move to break loose from Wadai.

He did this before paying homage to the puppet king Adam Asil and before being visited at his capital of Goz Beida by a French lieutenant.

[9] Dud Murra moved north to Kapka, where he spent the next ten months gathering a force of loyal subjects and Sanusi allies.

[14]Dud Murra retreated south into Dar Masalit after his defeat at Kapka, and many refugees from Wadai fled to Darfur.

[16] Commander Joseph Édouard Maillard, head of the Chad Territory forces, advanced with 300 men into Massalit.

On 8 November 1910 5,000 of Dud Murra's cavalry and troops of Sultan Tadj ed-Din surrounded and defeated Maillard at Dorothe.

[18] Afraid that the French would invade Dar Masalit again, the sultan Endoka, son of Abbakr, expelled Dud Murra.

[8] A 1924 report said that Dud Murra was then a political prisoner at large in Fort-Lamy, and was receiving a French government pension.