Bissandugu
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Bissandugu is a city in southwestern Guinea on National Road 1. In the 19th century, it was the base for Samori Ture, a Dyula warlord who named the city in 1878 as the capital of his Wassoulou Empire.
The mass grave of the French soldiers killed during the Battle of Bissandou, commonly known as Tubabu Falan (the cave of the white)
Mandingo Wars
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The Mandingo Wars were a series of conflicts from 1882 to 1898 between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo people led by Samori Ture. Comparatively, the French faced serious resistance by
Bissandugu
…Empire a French protectorate. On April 9, 1891, the city was attacked and burned by French forces commanded by Colonel Louis Archinard during the Mandingo Wars. The French colonial administration re-established control in the area. Traces of the ancient fortifications of the city can still be found just outside…
Colonel Monteil's Expedition - Combat of Sobala (Le Monde illustré magazine, 1895)