The French forces disposed of 700 men, plus the 600 riflemen and 200 cavalry provided by the allied Baguirmians.
Kingdom of Baguirmi | Chari-Baguirmi Region | Baguirmi | Baguirmi Department |
A clever politician and charismatic leader of the Tijaniyya Islamic brotherhood in Chad, Koulamallah campaigned in different times and places as a member of the Baguirmi nobility (he was an estranged son of the sultan), a radical socialist leader, or a militant Muslim fundamentalist.
In the eastern lower Logone valley formed out of the Kotoko population several historic sultanates (Kousseri, Logone-Birni, Makari-Goulfey and others) which were political dependent to the empires of Bornu or Baguirmi and belong today to Cameroon.