Re: 2nd/3rd rate powers - Africans...

--- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

> Other examples worth mentioning of fighting skill
> and courage are
> various colonial campaigns or rebellions against
> colonial powers, e.g.
> the Sudan campaign (Kiplings "Fuzzi Wuzzies"), the
> Dahomey and their
> Amazons, the Herero rebellion in German SW Africa or
> the Maji-Maji
> rebellion in German East Afrika.

Fighting skill on the individual level and personal
courage != good quality professional soldiers.	
 
> As to professional troops, various colonial troops
> were held in quite
> high regard, e.g.v.Lettow Vorbeck's Askari, the
> King's African Rifles
> or French auxiliaries - even if these were led by
> Europeans.

Led, trained, and equipped.  Sounds like the colonial
power is doing all the work.

John

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