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Title: | West Indian Troops and the Defence of British West Africa in the Nineteenth Century |
Author: | Ukpabi, Samson C. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 133-150 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | English-speaking Africa West Africa |
Subjects: | defence policy colonial forces History and Exploration Military, Defense and Arms colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/523581 |
Abstract: | This paper surveys the role of the West Indian troops in the evolution of British military policy in West Africa and traces how their use led directly to the raising of the West African Frontier Force. Ref., notes. |