Louis Faidherbe information

Louis Léon César Faidherbe (French pronunciation: [lwi leɔ̃ sezaʁ fedɛʁb]; 3 June 1818 – 29 September 1889) was a French general and colonial administrator...

(1855–1893), French military officer and explorer, the stepson of Louis Faidherbe Louis Faidherbe (1818–1889), French general and Governor of Senegal This disambiguation...

-16.501111 Faidherbe Bridge (French: Pont Faidherbe) is a road bridge over the Senegal River which links the island of the city of Saint-Louis in Senegal...

century with Saint-Louis and Gorée, it had never attempted to expand outside of these two settlements. In 1854 however, Colonel Louis Faidherbe was appointed...

Dybuldu) was fought on 25 February 1855 between French forces of Colonel Louis Faidherbe and the combined Waalo and Trarza forces under Queen Ndaté Yalla Mbodj...

northern bank of the Senegal River. Implementing this new policy was Louis Faidherbe, the French governor of Senegal from 1854 to 1861 and from 1863 to...

the Waalo, Cayor, Baol, and Jolof. French colonists under Governor Louis Faidherbe progressively invaded and took over all the kingdoms, except the Serer...

West Africa, consisting of 17 stamps in three designs: portraits of Louis Faidherbe, Eugene Ballay, and an oil palm, with values ranging from 1 centime...

powers aspired to control the mines, but even when the French under Louis Faidherbe finally managed to do so after 1860 output was low and the specialist...

December 1870. The battle was fought between 40,000 French under General Louis Faidherbe and 22,500 Prussian troops under Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel. The...

Kingdom of Khasso founded at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1855, Louis Faidherbe, Governor of Senegal, built a fort at Medina which would be besieged...

colonial army at Medina Fort. The siege failed on July 18, 1857, when Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrived with relief forces. In 1860 Omar...

Toro was threatened by the French under the leadership of Governor Louis Faidherbe. The Almamyate at this time was divided into three parts. The Central...

of Faidherbe as governor. On 12 April 1855, following a Trarza attack against the French outpost of Richard Toll, Faidherbe departed from Saint-Louis with...

Saint-Louis increasingly demanded conquest as a way to establish order. The threat of El Hadj Omar Saidou Tall gave French governor Louis Faidherbe the...

1861 - 1865 (d. 1889) 1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician, Governor of Senegal (d. 1889) 1819...

Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and academic (b. 1810) 1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician (b. 1818) 1898 – Thomas F. Bayard, American...

enterprising French officer, Louis Faidherbe, to govern and expand the colony, and to give it the beginning of a modern economy. Faidherbe built a series of forts...

Louis Faidherbe, Senegal Joseph Gallieni, Madagascar Francis Garnier, French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) Émile Gentil, French Congo Louis...

American dress reformer, women's rights activist (d. 1894) June 3 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and colonial administrator (d. 1889) June 17 Sophie...