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4 - The British Navy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Gwyn Campbell
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McGill University, Montréal
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This chapter presents the history of the third group of Madagascar Youths who Radama sent abroad as a result of the Britanno-Merina alliance. This group comprised the youths who from 1824 served as apprentices on British naval vessels under the Cape Command, one of the main tasks of which was to counter the western Indian Ocean slave trade. The chapter examines the role of Madagascar in the regional slave trade, the strategy adopted by the British to suppress that trade, notably the desire that Radama build a navy to patrol Malagasy waters, and the training of a select group of Madagascar Youths aboard British naval vessels in the expectation that they would subsequently man Radama’s fleet.

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The Madagascar Youths
British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region
, pp. 109 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The British Navy
  • Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: The Madagascar Youths
  • Online publication: 16 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009053655.005
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  • The British Navy
  • Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: The Madagascar Youths
  • Online publication: 16 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009053655.005
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  • The British Navy
  • Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: The Madagascar Youths
  • Online publication: 16 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009053655.005
Available formats
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