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Mandingo Wars, the Glossary

The Mandingo Wars were a series of conflicts from 1883 to 1898 between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo people led by Samori Ture.^[1]

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Battles involving the French Foreign Legion
Resistance to the French colonial empire

Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Bamako

Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569.

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The Battles of Woyowoyanko are two military engagements that were fought near the Woyowoyanko river in April 1883, during the wars between France and the Wassulu Empire of Samori Ture in West Africa. Mandingo Wars and Battles of Woyowoyanko are African resistance to colonialism.

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Bissandugu

Bissandugu (Bissandougou) is a city in southwestern Guinea on National Road 1.

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Bouna, Ivory Coast

Bouna (also spelled Buna) is a town in north-eastern Ivory Coast.

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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.

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Dyula people

The Dyula (Dioula or Juula) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.

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Faranah

Faranah (N’ko: ߝߙߊߣߊ߫߫) is a town and sub-prefecture in central Guinea, lying by the River Niger.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French West Africa

French West Africa (Afrique-Occidentale française, italic) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

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Frontal assault

A frontal assault is a military tactic which involves a direct, full-force attack on the front line of an enemy force, rather than to the flanks or rear of the enemy.

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Garrison

A garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is any body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it.

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Grand-Bassam

Grand-Bassam is a town in southeastern Ivory Coast, lying east of Abidjan.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.

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Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes

Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes (22 October 1839 – 18 July 1900) was a French general.

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Hegemony

Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.

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Henri Gouraud

Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud (17 November 1867 – 16 September 1946) was a French general, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War.

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Kabadougou

Kabadougou Region is one of the 31 regions of Ivory Coast.

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Kankan

Kankan (Mandingo: Kánkàn; N’ko: ߞߊ߲ߞߊ߲߫) is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 198,013 people as of 2020.

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Kénédougou Kingdom

The Kénédougou Kingdom, (Cebaara Senufo: Fǎngi Kenedugu), (c. 1650–1898) was a pre-colonial West African state established in the southeastern portion of present-day Mali, as well as parts of northern Côte d'Ivoire and western Burkina Faso.

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Kérouané

Kérouané is a town located in southeastern Guinea.

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Kiniéran

Kiniéran is a town and sub-prefecture in the Mandiana Prefecture in the Kankan Region of eastern Guinea.

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Kissidougou

Kissidougou (ߞߛߌ߬ߘߎ߯; pronounced like Kiss-eh-dow-goo) is a city in southern Guinea.

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Kita, Mali

Kita is a town and urban commune in western Mali.

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Kong Empire

The Kong Empire (1710–1898), also known as the Wattara Empire or Ouattara Empire for its founder, was a pre-colonial African Muslim state centered in northeastern Ivory Coast that also encompassed much of present-day Burkina Faso.

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Kong, Ivory Coast

Kong, also known as Kpon, is a town in northern Ivory Coast.

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Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.

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Louis Archinard

Louis Archinard (11 February 1850 – 8 May 1932) was a French Army general at the time of the Third Republic, who contributed to the colonial conquest of French West Africa.

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Louis-Gustave Binger

Louis-Gustave Binger (14 October 1856 – 10 November 1936) was a French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France.

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Mahmadu Lamine

al-Hajj Mahmadu Lamine Drame,also known as Ma Lamine Demba Dibassi, (died 9 December 1887) was a nineteenth-century Tijani marabout who led a series of rebellions against the French colonial government in what is now Senegal.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Manding region

Manding, Manden or even Mandé is a region located in West Africa, a space between southern Mali and eastern Guinea.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka or Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea.

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Niagassola

Niagassola is a town and sub-prefecture in the Siguiri Prefecture in the Kankan Region of north-eastern Guinea.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Nyamina

Nyamina is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Koulikoro in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.

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Samori Ture

Samory Toure (– June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Mandinka Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea, north-eastern Sierra Leone, southern Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

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Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Mandingo Wars and Scramble for Africa are 19th century in Africa.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Siguiri

Siguiri (N’ko: ߛߌ߯ߙߌ߲߫; Arabic: سِجِرِ ِ) is a city in northeastern Guinea on the River Niger.

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Sikasso

Sikasso (Bambara: ߛߌߞߊߛߏ tr. Sikaso) is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region.

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Sofa (warrior)

Sofa is a Mandinka term for slave soldiers who served in the army of the Mali Empire.

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Southern Nigeria Regiment

The Southern Nigeria Regiment was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces regiment which operated in Nigeria in the early part of the 20th century.

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Toubab

"Toubab", "Toubabou" or "Toubob" is a Central and West African name for a person of European descent ("whites").

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Toucouleur Empire

The Toucouleur Empire (الخلافة التجانية; also known as the Tijaniyya Jihad state or the Segu Tukulor or the Tidjaniya Caliphate or the Umarian State) (1861–1890) was an Islamic state in the mid-nineteenth century founded by Elhadj Oumar Foutiyou Tall of the Toucouleur people of Senegal. Mandingo Wars and Toucouleur Empire are 19th century in Africa.

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Troupes coloniales

The Troupes coloniales ("Colonial Troops") or Armée coloniale ("Colonial Army"), commonly called La Coloniale, were the colonial troops of the French colonial empire from 1900 until 1961.

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Wa, Ghana

Wa is a town and the capital of the Wa Municipal District and the Upper West Region of Ghana.

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Wassoulou Empire

The Wassoulou empire, also referred to as the Mandinka Empire, Samory's Empire or the Samorian State, was a short-lived West African state that existed from roughly 1878 until 1898, although dates vary from source to source.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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William Edward Maxwell

Sir William Edward Maxwell, (5 August 1846 – 14 December 1897) was a British colonial official who served as colonial secretary of the Straits Settlements and governor of the Gold Coast, then a British colony.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandingo_Wars

Also known as First Mandingo War, Second Mandingo War, Third Mandingo War.

, Wassoulou Empire, West Africa, William Edward Maxwell.

Mandingo Wars, the Glossary

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See also

Battles involving the French Foreign Legion

Resistance to the French colonial empire

References