NEW MAP: Sub-Saharan Africa 1899: Voulet–Chanoine and Rabih (17 Jul 1899) https://buff.ly/36QMy9P Following the Fashoda Crisis (1898), France sought to unite its colonies in western Africa by sending a two-pronged offensive from Senegal and the French Congo to conquer the Chad Basin. In a disastrous start, the Senegalese column mutinied under captains Voulet and Chanoine, embarking on a six-month killing spree across the Sahel before it was finally stopped in July 1899. Compounding French failure, the Chad-based warlord Rabih attacked and destroyed the Congolese column at the same time. Together, these setbacks delayed French expansion in the region by almost a year. #1890s #1899 #19thcentury #africa #africanhistory #fashoda #cartography #centralafricanrepublic #chad #damagaram #frenchempire #frenchequatorialafrica #frenchwestafrica #historisch #historymaker #historynerd #july #july17 #mapping #maps #maradikingdom #militaryhistory #niger #rabih #subsaharanafrica #victorian #victorianera #frenchcongo #sahel #newmap (at Zinder) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA7QCqvAdcg/?igshid=1vwru20l5d8ys
