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State five factors the enabled Samore Toure to resist for long

      

State five factors the enabled Samore Toure to resist for long

  

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John
i) Samore had a large army of 35,000 men who were well trained and equipped.

ii) Samore was a soldier, hence knew how to organize his army.

iii) Samore’s soldiers knew the French military tactics as many of them had defected from the French
army

iv) Samore’s soldiers were familiar with terrain hence employed guerilla warfare tactics successfully

v) The adoption of guerilla warfare further delayed the conquest

vi) Unity within the army and civilians

vii) He used the scorched-earth policy which weakened the French.

viii) Samore had military workshops that supplied him with weapons and repaired his defective
ammunition.
johnmulu answered the question on April 26, 2017 at 13:56


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