2019_Fargher_James_1014712_ethesis.pdf - 3 views
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mpho221178763 on 26 Apr 23Warships were a necessity expand ones control of the Eastern coastal ports, as warships represents power
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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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