By author, Stephen M. Miller
The essays during this quantity pay attention to imperial clash. till lately, such a lot historians of empire have involved themselves with monetary matters. extra lately, scholarship has grew to become to social and cultural elements of Empire. The position of the army, despite the fact that, is still mostly missed. Historians have frequently seen the army as an arm of the civil strength, an establishment which failed to create coverage yet faithfully obeyed the directives given to it. those essays exhibit that certainly the army proposal for itself: its officials made coverage, brought new techniques and strategies, and applied the providers of neighborhood settlers and indigenes to pursue the pursuits of empire, and the rank and dossier trained rules in nice Britain referring to Africa and Africans.
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224 (205). ”96 Fingo continued to participate in similar raids and sweeps in December 1877 and January 1878. ”97 A colonial force sent east of the Kei River to attack the Gcaleka in mid-January 1878 consisted of fifty FAMP, fifty-two settler volunteers, and eight hundred armed Fingo. The Fingo were well equipped with firearms, great coats, blankets, and haversacks. While seizing 2,300 cattle, the Fingo encountered stiff resistance from the Gcaleka, who were forced to retire after one hundred of their men were killed.
90 C. Brownlee, the Residency, Kreli’s Country, August 1876, “Memorandum from Secretary for Native Affairs,” BPP, 1877 (1748) (1776) (1814) (1883) “Correspondence Respecting War between Transvaal Republic and Neighbouring Native Tribes, and Native Affairs in South Africa,” p. 123 (108). 91 For the War of 1877–78, see Milton, The Edges of War, 257–80; M. W. Spicer, “The War of Ngcayecibi (1877–78),” MA Thesis, Rhodes University, 1978. 38 tim stapleton parties of Gcaleka had attempted to probe the lager’s defenses, but they were countered by Fingo skirmishers.
Ayliff to Commandant Griffith, Camp Near Dwessa Forest, 5 November 1877, BPP 1878 (1961) (2000), p. 224 (205). ”96 Fingo continued to participate in similar raids and sweeps in December 1877 and January 1878. ”97 A colonial force sent east of the Kei River to attack the Gcaleka in mid-January 1878 consisted of fifty FAMP, fifty-two settler volunteers, and eight hundred armed Fingo. The Fingo were well equipped with firearms, great coats, blankets, and haversacks. While seizing 2,300 cattle, the Fingo encountered stiff resistance from the Gcaleka, who were forced to retire after one hundred of their men were killed.