Glover Hausas

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The Glover Hausas or Glover's Hausas [1] or Glover's Forty Thieves [2] was a local military group, primarily consisting of freed Hausa slaves assembled by John Hawley Glover in 1863 to protect the Royal Niger Company from marauding incursions of the Ashantis. [3] The local group later metamorphosed to the Nigerian Army of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. [4]

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  1. ↑ Kiernan & Kaye (1995). Imperialism and Its Contradictions. Psychology Press, 1995. p. 80. ISBN   9780415907972.
  2. ↑ Anderson & Killingray (1991). Policing the Empire: Government, Authority, and Control, 1830-1940 . Manchester University Press,1991. p.  107. ISBN   9780719030352.
  3. ↑ "celebrating nigerian army at 152". Thisdaylive. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Oyewole, Olusegun. The History of Nigerian Army - The Missing Link. LuLu. p. 51. ISBN   1471604292 . Retrieved June 7, 2015.
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