The history of English-speaking West Africa in the second half of the 19th century was to a great extent interwoven with European military developments on the West Coast. This does not mean that up till this time the military had been absent as a driving force in the history of West Africa, for the use of the army by European powers in West Africa, whether for "holding operations", for provisioning ships en route to the cape coast; for the defence of static defensive works, for garrison duties or for the safeguard of European interests is as old as European interests themselves in this part of Africa. But never had these nations employed so many troops and other resources in consolidating their powers on the West Coast as during the second half of the 19th century, especially in the last two decades of the century.
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