World-changing1885 – 1908 · 23 years

Belgian Conquest of Congo Free State

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Congo Basin · Stanley Falls · Katanga

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Force Publique conquest of the Congo basin under Leopold II's personal rule, accompanied by mass atrocities in the rubber and ivory zones.

Belligerents1

Congo Free State

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 5

Congo Arab War1892–94
Lulonga and Mongala Revolts1893–1905
Batetela Mutiny of 18951895–98
Kuba Revolts1899–1904
Boma Mutiny1900

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Belgian Conquest of Congo Free State (1885 – 1908). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/belgian-conquest-of-congo-free-state · Sources & methodology