Baggara spear "shalazieh"

Iain · 12th November 2013, 06:39 PM

Very interesting Colin, I had no idea they had that kind of machinery at their disposal. Thanks a lot for posting those extracts.

On the gun side, at least in the western Sahel there was a major effort to limit firearms filtering into the region, meaning that the vast majority were poor quality trade muskets. The captured arms in the Sudanese campaigns must have been quite a few levels above what was normally available.

Still, numbers and tactics as you mentioned, could still swing a battle.

12th November 2013, 06:39 PM	#10
Iain Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Olomouc Posts: 1,708	Very interesting Colin, I had no idea they had that kind of machinery at their disposal. Thanks a lot for posting those extracts. On the gun side, at least in the western Sahel there was a major effort to limit firearms filtering into the region, meaning that the vast majority were poor quality trade muskets. The captured arms in the Sudanese campaigns must have been quite a few levels above what was normally available. Still, numbers and tactics as you mentioned, could still swing a battle.