FIVE YEARS HARD by Frank P. Crozier 1932 FULANI EMPIRE & WESTERN SUDAN
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TITLE: Five years hard : being an account of the fall of the Fulani Empire and a picture of the daily life of a regimental officer among the peoples of Western Sudan
AUTHOR: Crozier, Frank P. (Frank Percy), 1879-1937.
PUBLISHER: London: Jonathan Cape
DATE: 1932
EDITION: First Edition.
DESCRIPTION: 4 unnumbered pages, 7-221 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 20 cm
CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD / FAIR. Fragmentary dust jacket mounted in brodart cover. Book is sunned on spine, with solid page and cover attachment.
BINDING: Full green cloth. Head edge black.
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The wikipedia biography of Frank Crozier below covers the General's entire career, fairly well known to readers in 1932. The present narrative in FIVE YEARS HARD, however, covers only his years as officer in Nigeria and Western Sudan only. Photos of flogging punishment for soldiers gives a sense of the author's growing distain for British Colonial military practice.
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Frank Percy Crozier CB, CMG, DSO (1 January 1879 – 31 August 1937) was a British military officer. His first military experience was in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) and with the Royal West African Frontier Force in Nigeria. During World War I, he commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade in the Battle of the Somme earning him the promotion to brigadier general and command of the 119th (Welsh) Brigade in the Battle of Cambrai and German spring offensive. After the war, he briefly served as an advisor of the newly established Lithuanian Army and commander of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary at the time of the Partition of Ireland. However, he quickly became disillusioned with the British conduct in Ireland and war in general. He became a pacifist and published several controversial autobiographical books..
The Fulani Empire = The Sokoto Caliphate (Arabic: ٱلْخِلَاْفَة ٱسوكوتو, romanized: al-Khilāfa al-Sokutu) was a sovereign Sunni Muslim caliphate in West Africa that was founded during the jihad of the Fulani War in 1804 by Usman dan Fodio. The boundaries of the caliphate make up present-day Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria.[1] [2] It was dissolved when the British and Germans conquered the area in 1903 and annexed it into the newly established Northern Nigeria Protectorate and Kamerun respectively.
