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The French Flag in Zanzibar Waters 1860s-1900s: Abolition and Imperial Rivalry in the W... - 2 views

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      Again, a warship (gunship) was helpful to perform an agreement on the the ownership of one of the ports that resided on the Sultanate regions.
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      Warships were usually owned by countries from outside Africa as guns were imported into Africa through these ports at the Red Sea.
  • Hereafter, theH.M.SLondon, a two-decker 90-gun ship of 205 feet with thirteen small boatsattached to her, was stationed close to the island until 1884.75Thanks to thepresence of the old gunboat which had served during the Crimean War, theTHE JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY53
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    This image is of a warship that the Turks brought to Somali, as to intimidate other countries who competed to control the Sultans ports.
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    Clearly Somali had no other option but allow Turkish Ships to do trading on their ports as they did not have such weapons to use for resistance.
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      Warships were a necessity expand ones control of the Eastern coastal ports, as warships represents power
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      Warships were used as protection the the east African ports. If a country did not have them yet they owned ports, it gave rivals an opportunity to try and take them away.
  • In the summer of that year, HMS Lynx, a gunboat normally assigned to anti-slavery patrols, reported to the Aden Resident that a large number of Italian warships had been sighted outside of Assab. 214 As her captain had discovered, one of these vessels, the frigate Rapido, carried an expedition from the Italian Geographical Society which would be carrying out a survey in the hinterlands outside of Assab. 2
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  • Maintaining the status quo in the Red Sea was a different matter.
  • ‘to afford protection to British subjects in case of need.
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