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Yoni Expedition
The Yoni Expedition was British campaign launched in 1887 against the Yoni Chiefdom of the Temne people of Sierra Leone. Composition of expedition The expedition was led by Francis de Winton and consisted of: * 1st West India Regiment: 298 troops * Sierra Leone Police Corps: 45 men * HMS ''Acorn'', HMS ''Icarus'' and HMS ''Rifleman'': 38 naval personnel * irregulars from friendly tribes: 400 men The British were supported by a force led by Sory Kessebeh from Bumpe, who had previously experienced attacks from the Temne. * local porters to transport supplies: 500 men * local bush-cutters to open up a track through the bush: 200 * government officials and military officers: 19 men The seamen manned a 7-pounder rifled, muzzle-loading field gun and a Maxim machine gun The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. The Maxim gun has been called "the weapon most associated wit ...
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The British ...
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Sory Kessebeh
Sory Kessebeh (c. 1820–1897) was a Loko leader in the mergent Sierra Leone protectorate during the nineteenth century. His name arose because he wore ''sebe'' traditional charms influenced by Islam.Magbaily C. Fyle''Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone'' Scarecrow Press, 2006, Sory Kessebeh was the son of Sory Kutu who received a military education in Makal, now a small village just over two miles west of Makeni. As he was growing up the Loko people were in conflict with the Temne people. With the final dominance of the Temne, the Loko people dispersed. Sory did not get on with the King, his brother Gbanga Koba-Wa, and so took the opportunity to aid Richard Conray-Ba Caulker of Bumpe by becoming one of his military leader. As a reward he was given Suzerainty of Rotifunk, which during the 1870s prospered under his leadership and attracted many Loko refugees. During the 1880s he was involved in defending Bumpe territory from Temne incursions from the Yoni Chiefdom. He joined the Br ...
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Infantry Regiments Of The British Army
Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and marine infantry. Although disused in modern times, heavy infantry also commonly made up the bulk of many historic armies. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery have traditionally made up the core of the combat arms professions of various armies, with the infantry almost always comprising the largest portion of these forces. Etymology and terminology In English, use of the term ''infantry'' began about the 1570s, describing soldiers who march and fight on foot. The word derives from Middle French ''infanterie'', from older Italian (also Spanish) ''infanteria'' (foot soldiers too inexperienced for cavalry), from Latin '' īnfāns'' (without speech, newborn, foolish), from which English also gets ''infant''. The individual-soldier te ...
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British West Indies
The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guiana (now Guyana) and Trinidad and Tobago. Other territories include Bermuda, and the former British Honduras (now Belize). The colonies were also at the center of the transatlantic slave trade, around 2.3 million slaves were brought to the British Caribbean. Before the decolonisation period in the later 1950s and 1960s the term was used to include all British colonies in the region as part of the British Empire.
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Military Of Sierra Leone
The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) are the armed forces of Sierra Leone, responsible for the territorial security of Sierra Leone's borders and defending the national interests of Sierra Leone, within the framework of the 1991 Sierra Leone Constitution and International laws. The armed forces were formed after independence in 1961, on the basis of elements of the former British Royal West African Frontier Force, then present in the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate. Circa 2010, the Sierra Leone Armed Forces consisted of around 13,000 personnel. Before Sierra Leone gained independence in 1961, the military was known as the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force. The armed forces seized control in 1968, bringing the National Reformation Council into power. On 19 April 1971, when Sierra Leone became a republic, the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force was renamed as the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Force (RSLMF).
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Maxim Gun
The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. The Maxim gun has been called "the weapon most associated with imperial conquest" by historian Martin Gilbert, and was heavily used by colonial powers during the "Scramble for Africa". Afterwards, Maxim guns also saw extensive usage by different armies during the Russo-Japanese War, the First and Second World Wars, as well as by insurgent groups in contemporary conflicts. The Maxim gun was greatly influential in the development of machine guns, and it has multiple variants and derivatives. Design The Maxim gun featured one of the earliest recoil-operated firing systems in history. Energy from recoil acting on the breech block is used to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one. Maxim's earliest designs used a 360-degree rotating cam to reverse the movement of the block, but this was later simplified to a toggl ...
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Bumpe
Bumpe is a small town in Bo District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. As of 2013 it had an estimated population of 16,123. The town is located south-west of Bo, Sierra Leone, Bo. The town is also known as Bompeh, and both names are applied to a local river. Sir Samuel Rowe, the British Colonial Governor, visited the area in 1880. Pan Pacific Investments Corporation (SL) Limited has a license to mine for diamonds in Bompeh. See also * House of Kposowa *Mende people The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic group at 35.5% of the total population, which is slightly larger than the Mende at 31.2%. The Mende are pr ... References Populated places in Sierra Leone {{SierraLeone-geo-stub ...
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HMS Rifleman (1872)
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Rifleman'': * was a 12-gun gun-brig purchased in 1804 and sold in 1809. * was an 18-gun launched in 1809 and sold in 1836. She then became a whaler, making three whaling voyages between 1837 and 1856. * was a wooden screw gunvessel A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies. History Pre-steam ... launched in 1846 and sold in Hong Kong in 1869. * was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1872 and sold in 1890. * was an completed in 1910 and sold for breaking in 1921. * was an completed in 1944. She was used as an accommodation ship in Barrow in 1970 and sold for breaking in 1972. * A named HMS ''Rifle'' was laid down in 1944, but cancelled in 1945. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rifleman, Hms Royal Navy ship names ...
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Yoni Chiefdom
The Yoni Chiefdom is a Chiefdom of Sierra Leone located in Tonkolili District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone. It is centred on Yonibana and the Yoni people are part of the Temne ethnic group. British invasion of 1887 Francis de Winton led the British Yoni Expedition The Yoni Expedition was British campaign launched in 1887 against the Yoni Chiefdom of the Temne people of Sierra Leone. Composition of expedition The expedition was led by Francis de Winton and consisted of: * 1st West India Regiment: 298 troop ... against the Yoni Chiefdom following a number of disputes with the British allies in the area. References Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone Northern Province, Sierra Leone {{SierraLeone-geo-stub ...
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HMS Icarus (1885)
HMS ''Icarus'' was a composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns, and the third Royal Navy vessel to carry the name. She was launched in 1885 at Devonport and sold in 1904. Construction Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, her hull was of composite construction; that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking. She was fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine driving a single screw, produced by Barrow Iron Shipbuilding. Uniquely among her class she was built rigged with no main yards, making her a barquentine-rigged vessel; the rest of her class were barque-rigged. However, later pictures show her rigged as a barque. Her keel was laid at Devonport Royal Dockyard on 18 August 1883 and she was launched on 27 July 1885 by Miss Julia Wilson, the daughter of Admiral Superintendent Wilson; the launch was originally planned for 11 July but was postponed following the admiral's death on 4 July. Her enti ...
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HMS Acorn (1884)
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Acorn''. A seventh was planned but never completed: * was a 22-gun ship hired between 1649 and 1654. * was an 18-gun Cormorant-class ship-sloop launched in 1807 and broken up in 1819. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1826 and wrecked in 1828. * HMS ''Acorn'' was to have been an 18-gun sloop, but the order was cancelled in 1831. * was a 12-gun brig launched in 1838. She was used as a coal hulk from 1861 and was sold in 1869. * was a composite screw sloop A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's ''screws'' (propelle ... launched in 1884 and sold in 1899. * was an launched on 1 July 1910 and sold in 1921. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Acorn, Hms Royal Navy ship names ...
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