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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... enemy they were as liable as the soldiers to be slain , ill - treated or enslaved . Secondly , it appears that during the nineteenth century there was a widespread increase in the scale of West African warfare and in the bitterness of ...
... enemy they were as liable as the soldiers to be slain , ill - treated or enslaved . Secondly , it appears that during the nineteenth century there was a widespread increase in the scale of West African warfare and in the bitterness of ...
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... enemy . After declining several times to be brought to combat since he could not ' get ( the enemy troops ) into the situation he wished for ' , he accepted battle on 28 March 1824 in the plain to the south - east of the town of Angala ...
... enemy . After declining several times to be brought to combat since he could not ' get ( the enemy troops ) into the situation he wished for ' , he accepted battle on 28 March 1824 in the plain to the south - east of the town of Angala ...
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... enemy ' perished by disease and famine ' rather than from wounds.63 The war of 1778-82 between Ardra , allied with Dahomey , and Ekpe provides an even more useful example of canoe warfare , since it includes a battle fought on the water ...
... enemy ' perished by disease and famine ' rather than from wounds.63 The war of 1778-82 between Ardra , allied with Dahomey , and Ekpe provides an even more useful example of canoe warfare , since it includes a battle fought on the water ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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