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Nigeria: Produced as OBJ-006. [14] [15] AKM [16] Assault rifle Soviet Union: SIG SG 540 [2] Battle rifle Switzerland: NR1: Battle rifle Belgium Nigeria: Local variant designated NR1. [17] [18] [19] Beretta BM 59: Battle rifle Italy Nigeria: Produced locally under licence by DICON. Machine guns; M2 Browning [2] Heavy machine gun United States ...
Rejecting British demands to surrender their guns, mounted Basotho fighters repulsed British attacks during the "Gun War", 1880–81. End of the regional balance of power. While other African groups adapted to horses and guns, the Basotho state successfully maintained a measure of independence from the many enemies that sought to destroy it.
Gradually, Hussites pioneered battlefield use of firearms together with war wagons. Firearms were employed in auxiliary roles in 1419–1421. The first use of firearms as primary offensive weapons came in the 1421 Battle of Kutná Hora. From this moment on, firearms formed the core of Hussite tactics as well as a staple of Czech civilian ...
Kanembu warriors. African military systems before 1800 refers to the evolution of military systems on the African continent prior to 1800, with emphasis on the role of indigenous states and peoples, whose leaders and fighting forces were born on the continent, with their main military bases, fortifications, and supply sources based on or deriving from the continent, and whose operations were ...
British Nigeria; France French Equatorial Africa; German Empire. German Kamerun; Allied Victory: Bussa Rebellion (1915) Nigeria British Empire: Stalemate: Adubi War (1918) British Empire. British Nigeria; Egba rebels Victory: East African Campaign (World War II) [1] [circular reference] (1940–1943) Allied Powers: British Empire United Kingdom ...
The Nigerian Army traces its history to Lieutenant John Hawley Glover's Constabulary Force, which was largely composed of freed Hausa slaves in 1863. [6] The Constabulary Force was established with the primary goal of protecting the Royal Niger Company and its assets from constant military incursions by the neighboring Ashanti Empire. [7]
Old Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, c. 1892–95 A Gilbertese shark-toothed weapon (late 19th century). Major innovations in the history of weapons have included the adoption of different materials – from stone and wood to different metals, and modern synthetic materials such as plastics – and the developments of different weapon styles either to fit the terrain or to ...
The use of weapons has been a major driver of cultural evolution and human history up to today since weapons are a type of tool that is used to dominate and subdue autonomous agents such as animals and, by doing so, allow for an expansion of the cultural niche, while simultaneously other weapon users (i.e., agents such as humans, groups, and cultures) are able to adapt to the weapons of ...