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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... mounted Gobirawa . Again , cavalry were naturally of little use in the siege operations against walled towns and camps in which , as will be seen , much of the warfare of West Africa consisted . Light cavalry , riding the smaller ...
... mounted Gobirawa . Again , cavalry were naturally of little use in the siege operations against walled towns and camps in which , as will be seen , much of the warfare of West Africa consisted . Light cavalry , riding the smaller ...
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... mounted upon their weak unseemly nags . . . only armed with missiles usually consisting of one large spear , or kasakka , and four small javelins , or ballem ; very few of them have shields ' . For mounted infantry , see pp . 129-30 ...
... mounted upon their weak unseemly nags . . . only armed with missiles usually consisting of one large spear , or kasakka , and four small javelins , or ballem ; very few of them have shields ' . For mounted infantry , see pp . 129-30 ...
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... mounted on Plateau ponies , over what was apparently a force of heavy cavalry mounted on the larger breed of horse , using saddle and stirrups and charging with thrusting spears ( lances ) . 40. Echenberg , 243 , writes of the Mossi in ...
... mounted on Plateau ponies , over what was apparently a force of heavy cavalry mounted on the larger breed of horse , using saddle and stirrups and charging with thrusting spears ( lances ) . 40. Echenberg , 243 , writes of the Mossi in ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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