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Significant1883 – 1885 · 2 years

First Franco-Hova War

Tamatave · Majunga · Antananarivo

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

French naval bombardment and occupation of Tamatave forcing the 1885 protectorate treaty over Madagascar.

Belligerents2

  • France
  • Merina Kingdom

ON THE MAPMerina Kingdom

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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18.15°S · 49.40°E · 1883 – 1885WARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / FIRST-FRANCO-HOVA-WAR

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