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    The VouletChanoine Mission, also called Central African-Chad Mission (French: mission Afrique Centrale-Tchad), was a French military expedition sent out...
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    d'Etat Major"). Chanoine had a son, Lt. Julien Chanoine, who played a role in the French conquest of Chad, in the Voulet-Chanoine Mission. List of Defense...
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    Émile Gentil (redirect from Gentil Mission)
    the Gentil Mission proceeding north from French Congo, the infamous Voulet-Chanoine Mission east from Niger and the Foureau-Lamy Mission south from Algeria...
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    this position when he met there in 1898 Captain Paul Voulet, commander of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission marching to Lake Chad, whom he provided with 70 Senegalese...
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    Abacus, 515–516. ISBN 0-349-10449-2. Henri Bretonnet Mission Battle of Togbao 1899 Voulet-Chanoine Mission Paul Joalland Émile Gentil Rabih az-Zubayr Battle...
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  • also the site of a major massacre on 8 May 1899 when the French VouletChanoine Mission attacked the region. On 27 October 2020, an American citizen was...
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    and the former Voulet-Chanoine Mission, proceeding from Niger. This column was now commanded by Joalland-Meynier, after Voulet and Chanoine murdered the...
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  • 'infernal column' has also been used for a similar movement in the Voulet-Chanoine Mission. State terrorism Nicolas Delahaye et Pierre-Marie Gaborit, Les...
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  • subgroup of the Hausa, who fought French colonial troops of the VouletChanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day Niger) in 1899. Sarraounia...
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  • Birni-N'Konni (Hausa for Citadel of Konni), was sacked by the French Voulet-Chanoine Mission in the 1898, and later assimilated into French West Africa. The...
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    He is remembered as one of two officers who took control of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission, which mutinied and rampaged through West Africa in 1899. He fought...
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    Voulet-Chanoine Mission. He was one of the six officers of the latter expedition, and was an artillery expert with the rank of lieutenant. The Voulet-Chanoine...
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    Niger. His primary goal was to unite his forces with those of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission; but first he felt he had to free himself of Rabih, and so left...
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  • Voulet-Chanoine Mission in 1899. Sarraounia was one of the few African tribal leaders that resisted the advances of French expansionists Paul Voulet and...
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    three expeditions—the Gentil Mission from French Congo, the Foureau-Lamy Mission from Algeria and the VouletChanoine Mission from Timbuktu—with the aim...
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  • priestess of Lougou, Sarraounia, resisted an attack by the French Voulet-Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou. The town ultimately fell, though Sarraounia's...
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  • The French Voulet-Chanoine Mission, led by the captains Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, had been dispatched in 1898 to Africa by the French government...
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    brief resistance, occupied in July 1899 by Lt. Pallier of the Voulet-Chanoine mission. The French barracks was called Fort Cazemajou and it served as...
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    of Chad (September 1900), the Voulet-Chanoine Mission had accomplished all its goals. The ruthlessness of the mission provoked a scandal in Paris. As...
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    War (1890) Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892–94) Second Madagascar expedition (1895) Menalamba rebellion (1895-1903) VouletChanoine Mission (1898–1900)...
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    the French in 1899 saw the bloody destruction of the town by the Voulet-Chanoine Mission, but later the town recovered to become an important regional centre...
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    War (1890) Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892–94) Second Madagascar expedition (1895) Menalamba rebellion (1895-1903) VouletChanoine Mission (1898–1900)...
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  • Togbao April 8 Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement Battle of Kouno Voulet-Chanoine Mission 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter Islamic Legion Toyota War Operation...
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    War (1890) Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892–94) Second Madagascar expedition (1895) Menalamba rebellion (1895-1903) VouletChanoine Mission (1898–1900)...
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    three southwest provinces–to France in 1863 to revise the treaty. The mission failed as Napoleon III did not accept the Annamite demands. In August 1863...
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  • and heir Djaoulen-Karamo was sent on a diplomatic/fact finding/goodwill mission to France. On March 10, 1891, a French force under Colonel Louis Archinard...
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  • War (1890) Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892–94) Second Madagascar expedition (1895) Menalamba rebellion (1895-1903) VouletChanoine Mission (1898–1900)...
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  • the forts built between Médine and St. Louis allowed Faidherbe to launch missions against the Trarza Moors in Waalo (north of the Senegal river), who had...
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  • Africa. 10 October – French military mission leaves for Chad. November – Voulet-Chanoine Mission, a military mission from Senegal to Chad. 10 December –...
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    in the 18th century in present-day Nigeria. In 1899, the French Voulet-Chanoine mission reached the city. A few years later, Tibiri came under French rule...
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