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2 unusual facts about Émile Gentil


Émile Gentil

The Gentil Mission burned the town of Kouno, and confronted Rabih at the Battle of Kouno on 28 October 1899.

The ship was then dismantled and hauled by African laborers through the forest to reach navigable portions of the Oubangui, where he founded the French station at Fort-Archambault near one of Sultan Rabih az-Zubayr's major towns, Kouno (now in the Chari-Baguirmi Region of Chad).



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