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British and Creole intervention in the Sierra Leone hinterland in the 19th century

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area (between the mouths of the Bagru and Jong), then proceeds against Kpawoh Jibila (a.k.a. Gpow) of Talia, a town 30 miles East of Sherbro island, alleging that he has caused disturbances. Some of Jibila's smaller towns are destroyed, then his capital, Talia, is obliterated by rockets, field guns,
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Teaser is sent with 200 troops who partly destroy Maligia; the townspeople fire at them as they reembark. Teaser returns next morning ; while the troops are engaged in burning the rest of the town, they are fired upon heavily from the bush. They attempt to return to Teaser in a small boat but it
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announces that all European traders on the Melakori must leave within 10 days. Acting-governor Dougan sends three gunboats up the Melakori. They land 400 troops unopposed at Maligia; Lahai promises to reopen the river and pay compensation to the traders for lost earnings. After five months he has not
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December 28. Forty frontier police help defend chief Vonjo at Tungea near Panguma against Sofas led by Pokere. Pokere is killed, the Sofas defeated and pursued, engaged and defeated again on January 2. Pokere's ally, Foray, is captured and dies in Freetown jail. British allies continue raiding after
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slaves and their descendants) of the Freetown colony had only a very limited involvement in the affairs of the African kingdoms around them; such as it was, it consisted mostly of trading and missionary activity. Over the course of the 19th century this involvement gradually increased. The colonial
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The treaties usually committed an African chief to protect merchants and maintain peaceful relations with his neighbours so that trade would not be disturbed; in return, the British would pay him a gift or annual stipend. The military expeditions were against chiefs who acted detrimentally to the
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from villages along the way, sometimes by arresting their chiefs and flooging them if the carriers do not perform properly. In the early morning darkness of 23 December, at Waima (40 miles or 65 km past Panguma) this force and a small French force under Lieutenant Gaston Maritz mistake each
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Rowe acknowledges Madam Yoko as chief in Senehun (upper Bumpe) area. Fyfe, p 484, lists four other women made or protected as chiefs by the British ; he does not say whether the British favoured women as client chiefs. The women were: Nyaro of Bandasuma, Betsy Gay of Bogo, Kona Kambe in the
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In addition to commercial and anti-slave-trade motives for the British incursions into the Sierra Leone hinterland, military officers posted to Sierra Leone needed battle victories to enhance their reputations; and British felt culturally superiority and assumed that Europeanising natives was a
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abolishing slavery, the government also began pressing the chiefs, by treaty or force, to refrain from the slave trade. Since the wars between the chiefdoms were mostly slave-procuring wars, or otherwise intimately connected with the slave trade, suppression of the slave trade and promotion of
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January. Frontier Police created by Ordinance. 280 members. Blockhouses built at the important towns around the frontier road (about 30 mi or 50 km from Freetown). Force is composed of Creoles and hinterland people under European officers. The force quickly acquires a reputation for
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Acting-governor Foster makes treaty of alliance with chief of Sobami (50 mi or 80 km inland between the Great and Little Scarcies) against a Susu chief, Karimu, who is becoming powerful in the area. The British burn one of Karimu's towns and Karimu withdraws into French-controlled
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Copland-Crawford, 75 police, Momo Ja with 800 men, and additional disorganised fighters go on expedition against Chief Makaia. They take Fanima, one of his strongholds, on January 2 ; January 3, seize the six stockaded towns of Lago unopposed. Makaia flees inland to his ally
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Governor Hill uses troops and gunboat to threaten a Temne chief, Bai Kanta, into relinquishing land near the colony. Verbally Bai Kanta was told that he was leasing the land for £100 per year but the papers he was given to put his mark to declared it ceded to the British Crown.
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Forty frontier police are sent to the Small Scarcies area to restore prestige after the Bai Bureh escape and also suppress wars. They unsuccessfully attack one of Karimu's towns, Tambi (Tembe), 70 miles (110 km) inland on the river.
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December. Three hundred and seventy-nine army regulars, 47 frontier police, and about 1000 carriers from Freetown make an expedition against the Samorian Sofa. They go up the Bum river toward Panguma. Hundreds of additional carriers are
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January 1. Secretary of State Knutsford instructs Governor Hay to get treaties of friendship on the British side of the boundary with a clause forbidding the chiefs to make treaties with another European power without British consent.
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Garrett arrests Temne chief Bai Bureh for "defiance" when Bureh expresses displeasure at his allies having signed without consulting him a treaty promising not to attack their enemy Karimu. Bureh escapes on the way to Freetown.
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Governor Hay makes an extensive tour from Kambia in the North to the Mano river in the South, generally travelling about 40 miles (60 km) inland. He obtains from chiefs promises to build roads and refrain from war.
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Under threat of French naval attacks, chief Caulker chooses to cede Bendu and 200 square miles (600 km) around it to the British. The chiefs of the Bagru area are also convinced to cede their lands to the British.
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In the Moa river area, frontier police drive away a chief called Bawarume who is threatening a chief they support called Fabunde. A third chief, Kaba Sei, they arrest on the grounds that he has helped Bawarume.
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Navy burns the most accessible Gallinas towns because a local official, a former slave trader who served as the navy squadron's pilot and interpreter, was murdered. As a result, the coastal chiefs,
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An Imperial act is passed "to allow British subjects who committed offences in the area from the Rio Grande to the Gallinas and 500 miles Eastwards, to be punished by English law." (Fyfe's words.)
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April. Acting-governor Pinkett takes a large number of police up the Kittam and lower Bum, burning towns and destroying stockades, in retaliation to the robbery of the police payroll boat of £19.8
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10 August. Britain and France update their 1882 agreement which set a rough boundary between Sierra Leone and Guinea. The boundary is still not exact and is to be refined by a Commission later.
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Sherbro slave-trading chiefs, including Harry Tucker, begin kicking out Colony produce traders. Governor Kennedy sends a naval force to support the produce traders; it burns towns and baracoons.
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In June, Copland-Crawford is convicted by a Sherbro jury of manslaughter for flogging his servant to death. He is sentenced to 12 months in prison but released on medical grounds in England.
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Rowe makes another expedition, up the Bagru and through Kpa-Mende country. Flogs chiefs and destroys towns for complicity in the Caulker raids. He executes Caulker, Kinigbo, and Vana.
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Sherbro chiefs come to Freetown after the 1852 naval expedition against them (opposite → ) and sign treaties, promising to oppose slave trade. They get stipends and medals.
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Pine goes to Sherbro area in a naval ship and destroys a town where a canoe flying the Union Jack had been seized by one of the parties in a local war for supplying the other party.
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A Rio Nunez chief renounces a previous cession to Belgium and treats with Britain, promising them freedom to trade in return for a right to collect customs duties.
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Lieutenant Lundy, 2nd W.I.R., flogs Fula allies of British colonel de Winton for slave trading, destroys their towns, and drives them away from the Rotifunk area.
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A third assault is made on Tambi, by frontier police and 500 soldiers, accompanied by disciplined forces under Bai Bureh. The town is taken "without difficulty."
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Treaties made with chiefs Northward from Freetown along the coast ; they cede to British courts jurisdiction over British subjects in the chiefs' areas.
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near the mouth of the Great Scarcies, against the Bai Sherbro of Mambolo, an office vacant by death. Acting-governor Havelock drives him out with rockets.
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assumed its present large geographical size only in 1896. Prior to that, it was only a small colony encompassing roughly the 30-km-long peninsula on which
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government was, in particular, interested in fostering trade as this provided it with its main source of revenue, in the form of customs duties and other
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Gunboat goes to Rio Nunez ; chief promises without a struggle to forgive a debt owed to him by the acting-governor's brother, who is a trader.
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Police in Sulima area attempt to arrest Chief Fawundu for allegedly planning war. They shoot six of his people in the fight but Fawundu gets away.
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Macaulay, acting-governor, sends armed expedition against chief Harry Tucker to punish him for seizing a trader's goods ; burns Tucker's town
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Captain Walshe and troops intervene in a war between a Charles Turner-Mende alliance of at least 3000 warriors, and a Muslim, Kalifa, resident at
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other for the Sofa and engage in a gun battle, each suffering heavy casualties. Maritz and the British police commander are both killed.
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Boundary agreement made in Paris. It still leaves the exact line subject to a later surveying Commission (which was performed in 1896).
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Police find warriors of chief Gbana Gombu looting a town, flog them, and arrest Gombu. He dies in Freetown jail of police mistreatment.
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May. In the upper Bagru-Bumpe area, frontier police arrest seven people of Mokassi over a land dispute between that town and Banjema.
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June. Rowe gets Scarcies chiefs to cede a quarter-mile wide strip along sea and river so that British can collect customs duty.
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British launch small unsuccessful punitive expedition against Mende for raiding Bagru river area towns that were ceded in 1861.
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Walshe arrests several people on both sides of an inter-chiefdom dispute on Sherbro Island and sends them to jail in Freetown.
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the Poro bans timber trade as a result of inter-chief quarrels. A timber merchant, Heddle, gets the British to send a gunboat.
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Police stop their recent Mende allies from Taiama and Kwelu from unsanctioned continuation af raiding. One leader is jailed.
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in London declare Turner's 1825 treaty to be in force and Rowe stations constables between Freetown peninsula and Sherbro.
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Two travelling commissioners go out on treaty-making tours: Garrett in the North, Alldridge in the South. Garrett reaches
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Naval ship goes up the Ribi ; unopposed ; burns some towns ; is fired at from the banks while leaving.
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Sherbro Commandant Darnell Davis unsuccessfully attacks chief John Caulker in retaliation to raids in Bagru country.
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British man-of-war enters Jong river ; fires on natives ; soldiers burn down all or part of the town of
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The Yoni country is centered about 65 iles (110 km) East of Freetown. Source for this 1880 entry is Fyfe, p 425.
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territory. (That same year there was a French "punitive" expedition against natives at the Scarcies estuary.)
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region, for obstructing trade. They release 3,000 people being held there and send them to Momo Ja's country.
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Governor Campbell sends troops to fortify and garrison Sherbro Island. After about a year they are withdrawn.
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February. As conditions of peace Bai Kanta is forced to leave the environs of the colony and cede his towns
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Navy burns several towns near the colony to punish Pa Keni, their chief, for raiding another chief, Songo.
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area and shoot four people in the fight. The Melakori chiefs meet and demand redress; Bomba Mina Lahai of
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colony's business interests by evicting traders, restricting trade, or warring with neighbours. After the
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Momo Ja, G.H. Garrett, the officer in charge of the Sulima police, and 12 police destroy the 13 towns of
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between Sherbro and Gallinas) ceded. At this point the entire coast South of Freetown has been annexed.
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warships and get them to bombard a native town involved in a war over the succession to a chieftaincy.
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Nyagua gives up Makaia to Garrett's force and Makaia is exiled to Elmina. In 1894 he is allowed back.
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The governor, Hay, exercises power to confirm a king after his selection by chiefs (in Koya country).
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Navy burns towns on the South bank of the Rokel, including several Temne towns and the Muslim town of
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This article lists some of the interventions into the Sierra Leone hinterland in the 19th century.
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Governor Rowe crosses the Ribi with a military expedition to try to quell Masimera-Yoni fighting.
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and natives allied with the British. Jibila, however, slips away ; he is rumoured to be in
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Rowe imprisons in Freetown a chief, Songo, for burning some towns in the Ribi-Bumpe vicinity.
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Chief Boakei Gomna ("Governor") of the Gallinas area is deported by special ordinance to the
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British, this time with 168 police, make a second attempt on Tambi, but are again repulsed.
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McCormack mediates and gets a treaty in the Kambia disputes between Susu and other peoples.
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is attacked and most of its inhabitants killed in the bombardment and fires. Sahun and
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on the Rokel to help Walter Atkins, a retired clerk, in a quarrel with Marquis Granby.
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sign treaties guaranteeing peace and saying governor can adjudicate their disputes.
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If chiefs cause disturbances in the future they forfeit their lands to the British.
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British and Creole intervention in the Sierra Leone hinterland in the 19th century
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Fyfe seems definite on the verbal and signed contracts being different. P 310.
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Beginning in 1894, "Protectorate" was substituted for "Sphere" in Ordinances.
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chief, Gbaya, with several hundred of his own men besiege a Temne stockade at
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King Jaya of the Gallinas cedes the territory at the mouth of the Moa River.
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using force or a show of force (not clear) and installs Fatima Brima Kamara.
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Acting-governor Rowe obtains treaties from Mende and Sherbro chiefs at
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Police drive a chief, Makaia, who had raided Sulima, Mano Salija, and
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chiefs for breaking their treaty obligations to oppose slave trade.
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In August 1896, the British declared the entire hinterland area a "
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Five hundred troops landed by two gunboats at Kambia. The enemy (
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Pine forces rival chiefs in Sherbro area to sign a peace treaty.
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refuses to ratify it; the treaties are revived in 1879, however.
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done so; a gunboat is sent in May to negotiate, and a day later
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with the kingdoms or sending military expeditions against them.
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the expedition is over ; the British jail their leaders.
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Governor McCormack mediates in a Port Loko war of Temne and
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Governor Turner obtains cession of entire coastal area from
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following his 1875 military expedition in the area. Terms:
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Local disputes should be referred to British arbitration.
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Three hundred British troops accompanied by Songo and a
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there and leave. The Susu shortly drive them out again.
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De-militarise country by removing stockades from towns.
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brutality and using their position for personal gain.
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warriors for raiding a British client chief, a Mende,
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Anti slave-trade treaties signed with Sherbro chiefs.
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is located. Initially, the British and Creoles (freed
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Abraham, p 89 ; Little, p 45 ; Fyfe, p 484.
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May, June. Pinkett takes a force of about 200 to the
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British arrange truce between warring parties on the
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British claim and exercise the right to mediate in a
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(Oxford University Press) 827:Bai Sherbro of Samu occupies village of 561:and Turtle Islands are similarly ceded. 472:) river with rockets and burns it down. 1929: 1927: 1925: 1790:Abraham, pp 75-9 ; Fyfe, p 441, 2. 1291: 1664:Abraham, pp 53, 54 ; Fyfe, p 402. 1283:. London, 1967. (First ed. was 1951.) 727:Customs duty to be charged by British. 2063:Sierra Leone–United Kingdom relations 1969:Abraham, pp 105-8 ; Fyfe, p 487. 1754:Abraham, pp 72, 3 ; Fyfe, p 440. 313:Hotham burns factories and blockades 7: 2078:Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate 1047:community, in the middle-Bum, upper 503:against Susu and achieves a treaty. 155:trade route who were disrupting the 1872:"Sierra Leone—Mr. Copland Crawford" 2068:19th century in the British Empire 14: 1919:Fyfe, p 484 ; Abraham, p 90. 1826:Fyfe, p 480 ; Abraham, p 88. 1817:Fyfe, p 476 ; Abraham, p 86. 1718:Abraham, p 63 ; Fyfe, p 417. 1691:Abraham, p 55 ; Fyfe, p 403. 737:are fined 10,000 bushels of rice. 299:Governor Jeremie sends troops to 101:rebellion against an employer at 244:area and burns others. Declares 1877:Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) 1547:Fyfe, p 287 ; Little, p43. 1383:Fyfe, pp 157, 9; Abraham, p 47. 486:) withdraw. The troops install 97:Governor Thompson suppresses a 293:More treaties with Port Loko. 1: 733:Mende mercenaries who raided 105:. Transported ringleaders to 63: 53:proper and upright activity. 2048:19th century in Sierra Leone 1249:" and placed it under their 220:Governor Turner deposes the 123:sent an armed force to raid 2083:Wars involving Sierra Leone 2053:Sierra Leone Creole history 1419:Fyfe, p 185; Abraham, p 48. 2099: 1281:The Mende of Sierra Leone 1133:1890. Treaty boom begins. 1131: 908:Police and allies defend 776: 194: 66: 1274:History of Sierra Leone. 642:in the Jong River area. 1428:Fyfe, pp 159, 162, 163. 981:Robert Copland-Crawford 789:Mende rulers of Bumpe, 468:on the Great Scarcies ( 2073:19th century in Africa 1317:Helfman, Tara (2006). 925:: British colonel Sir 544:Waterloo, Sierra Leone 464:Naval force bombards 202:to approximately the 70:Military Expeditions 57:List of interventions 898:away from the area. 141:Vice admiralty court 46:Slave Trade Act 1807 2058:British West Africa 346:British traders at 248:on coast as far as 1272:Christopher Fyfe, 1269:. 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Index

Sierra Leone
Freetown
African American
Afro-Caribbean
taxes
treaties
Slave Trade Act 1807
Sherbro
British and Creole intervention in the Sierra Leone hinterland in the 19th century
Temne
Bunce Island
Cape Coast
William Maxwell
Cape Mesurado
Liberia
transportation
New South Wales
Vice admiralty court
Futa Jalon
caravans
Bai Muro
Port Loko
Bunce
Tasso
Tombo
Kamaranka river
Bum river
Secretary of State
London
Port Loko

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