West African Soldiers in Britain′s Colonial Army, 1860–1960 Stapleton Hardback
West African Soldiers in Britains Colonial Army, 1860-1960Author(s): Timothy Stapleton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781648250255, 978-1648250255\nSynopsis\nExplores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region.\n\nWest African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army explores the complex and constantly changing experience of West African soldiers under British command in Nigeria, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia. Since cost and tropical disease limited the deployment of British metropolitan troops to the region, British colonial rule in West Africa depended heavily on locally recruited soldiers and their families. This force became Britain's largest colonial army in Sub-Saharan Africa.\nWest African Soldiers looks at the development of this colonial military from the conquest era of the late ni.
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