Louis Archinard
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Louis Archinard (11 February 1850 – 8 May 1932) was a
Samory Toure
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Archinard was succeeded as military commander of the Sudan in 1893 by Eugène Bonnier, who left from Bordeaux on 5 August 1893 to take up his new command. Bonnier had no instructions and decided to follow Archinard's advice, use his own judgement and seize Timbuktu.[1] He was killed on 15 December 1893 by a force of Tuaregs.[2]
In 1897 Archinard was reassigned to French Indochina. In World War I, he commanded in August 1914 the 1er Group of Reserve Divisions, and in 1917-1918 the Polish Legion in France.
Decorations
- Légion d'honneur
- Knight (25 August 1881)
- Officer (9 July 1889)
- Commander (11 July 1903)
- Grand Officer (30 December 1908)
- Grand Cross (11 July 1914)
- Médaille militaire (6 July 1919)
- Croix de guerre 1914-1918
- Médaille Interalliée 1914–1918
- Commemorative medal of the 1870–1871 War.
- Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918
- Médaille Colonialewith "Soudan" bar.
References
- ^ Porch 2005, p. 136.
- ^ Porch 2005, p. 140.
Sources
- E. Réquin, Archinard et le Soudan, Éditions Berger-Levrault, 1946
- Martine Cuttier, Portrait du colonialisme triomphant - Louis Archinard 1850-1932, Éditions Lavauzelle, 2006 - ISBN 2-7025-1297-6
- A. S. Kanya-Forstner, The Conquest of the Western Sudan (Cambridge University Press, 1969). Chapter VII. The `Total Conquest' of the Sudan, 1888-93.
- O'Toole, Thomas E., Historical Dictionary of Guinea, (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1987) p. 18
- Porch, Douglas (2005-06-22), The Conquest of the Sahara: A History, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-1-4299-2209-8, retrieved 2018-06-17
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