Very interesting Colin, I had no idea they had that kind of machinery at their disposal. Thanks a lot for posting those extracts.
On the gun side, at least in the western Sahel there was a major effort to limit firearms filtering into the region, meaning that the vast majority were poor quality trade muskets. The captured arms in the Sudanese campaigns must have been quite a few levels above what was normally available.
Still, numbers and tactics as you mentioned, could still swing a battle.
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