Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes
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Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes was a French general. He was a major figure in the French Imperial conquest of the French Sudan, modern Mali. He was Commandant-Superior of the French Military Territory of H
Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes, photographed in 1886
The French fort at Kita (1904). This was the base of Lt. Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes's forces during his time as Commandant-Superieur du Haut-Fleuve.
Battles of Woyowoyanko
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The Battles of Woyowoyanko were two military engagements fought near the Woyowoyanko river in April 1883, during the wars between France and the Wassulu Empire of Samori Ture in West Africa.
Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes
…Niger and began construction of the Fort at Bamako on 1 February 1883. On 19 April, Bamako was connected to Senegal by telegraph lines. Samory's forces attacked the new fort in April but were repulsed, freeing Borgnis-Desbordes troops to range far south of the Niger, and enabling him to force protectorate status on most of…
Bamako at the turn of the 20th century.
Statue of a Wassulu warrior on the location of the battlefield.