 Although defeated at Logandème in Fatick, and one of his principalities (Fatick) burned to the ground under the orders of Faidherb, Kumba Ndoffene spent the next few years of his life destroying French infrastructure and their economic base in Senegal, as well as defending his country from another threat - Islamic jihad by the Muslim marabouts of Senegambia.In 1871, he was assassinated by the French.The reigning precolonial monarchies of Sine and Saloum continued up to 1969 without interruption, despite French conquest of Senegal.