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Outline six reasons for Samore’s defeat

      

Outline six reasons for Samore’s defeat

  

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John
i) Lack of unity among African societies

ii) As he retreated, Samore left the rich gold reserves of Bure and was cut off from Freetown, thus less
access to ammunition.

iii) Samore’s second empire was difficult to defend due to its bad to its bad position open to attacks.

iv) British refused to support Samore against the French.

v) When he could not buy any more new weapons, he had to use the old worn out ones

vi) He did not have adequate supplies since the people and army were constantly on the move hence no
economic base.

vii) The scorched-earth policy was resented by civilians hence local resistance arose

viii) The non-Mandika communities and non-Muslims in the empire did not give him full support.
johnmulu answered the question on April 26, 2017 at 13:58


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