Major conflict1899 – 1911 · 12 years

French Conquest of Chad

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

Lake Chad · Kousseri · Ouaddai

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Decade-long French campaigns under Lamy, Gentil and Largeau that destroyed Rabih az-Zubayr's empire and conquered Baguirmi, Kanem and Ouaddai.

Belligerents3

French Third Republic
Rabih Sultanate
Sultanate of Ouaddai

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Kouno1899
Battle of Niellim1899
Battle of Kousséri1900
French Conquest of Ouaddai1909–12

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: French Conquest of Chad (1899 – 1911). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/french-conquest-of-chad · Sources & methodology