ABSTRACT
In 1890, however, the British East Africa Company decided to set up a post within Kikuyu territory, at Dagoreti, a post which was built by Captain (later Lord)
Lugard and Mr. George Wilson. This station of the Com pany’s was twice attacked and destroyed by the Kikuyu in eighteen months and then a stronger fort was built at a better situation, four miles farther into Kikuyu territory at Fort Smith. In 1892 there was severe fighting with the Kikuyu round Fort Smith and again in 1893, but a little later peace treaties were made and the relations between the Kikuyu and the British improved.
