Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West AfricaUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 164 pages This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century.& Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies. |
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... effectiveness , especially against cavalry ' - a horse , even when galloping , presents a large target . In battle ... effective range was some 50 to 75 yards , compared with some 250 yards for the longbow ; at close range they were ...
... effectiveness , especially against cavalry ' - a horse , even when galloping , presents a large target . In battle ... effective range was some 50 to 75 yards , compared with some 250 yards for the longbow ; at close range they were ...
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... effective copies of Kropatschek repeating rifles , eventually producing two of these guns daily.100 Bullets were manufactured locally ( as they still are ) , though when rifles began to be imported cartridges were introduced with them ...
... effective copies of Kropatschek repeating rifles , eventually producing two of these guns daily.100 Bullets were manufactured locally ( as they still are ) , though when rifles began to be imported cartridges were introduced with them ...
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... effective protection against the rifle fire and seven - pounder shells to which they were subjected by the British in the operations of 1898-9.7 Finally , a simpler , but effective , defence was a hedge of cactus such as surrounded the ...
... effective protection against the rifle fire and seven - pounder shells to which they were subjected by the British in the operations of 1898-9.7 Finally , a simpler , but effective , defence was a hedge of cactus such as surrounded the ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Abeokuta African Hist Ajayi and Crowder Ajayi and Smith Alafin Allada ambassadors armed arrows Asante Asantehene attack Badagry Bagirmi Barbot Barth battle Benin Borno Borno army Bosman Bowdich bows Burton Cadamosto camp canoes cavalry Central Sudan Chapter chiefs Clapperton Dagomba Dahomean Dahomey Dalzel Dapper Denham and Clapperton described diplomacy diplomatic Donelha Dupuis early Egba eighteenth century enemy European example Fante fire firearms Fisher Fodio forest Fulani Gobir Gold Coast guns Hausa Hausaland horses Ibadan Ibn Fartua Idris Aloma Igbo Ijaye important infantry Islamic jihad Kanem Kanembu Kano king kingdom Labat Lagos Leo Africanus military mounted muskets Muslims Niger Nigeria nineteenth century Nupe passim political Portuguese pre-colonial West Africa probably river ruler savannah seventeenth century shields sixteenth century slaves Smaldone Snelgrave Sokoto Caliphate soldiers Songhai spears stockade swords town trade troops Usman dan Fodio usually walls warfare warriors weapons West Africa West African armies Whydah Yoruba Yorubaland