Due to atrocities like hanging people alive to be eaten by animals and roasting children, a military unit traveling across this colony in 1898-1899 was labeled an "infernal column".
Due to atrocities like hanging people alive to be eaten by animals and roasting children, a military unit traveling across this colony in 1898-1899 was labeled an "infernal column". Soldiers named after a portion of this colony were the fathers of the 16,000-18,000 "Rhineland Bastards". Only people born in the Four Communes of this colony were able to attain citizenship in its ruling country. The starting point of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission, most of the territorial expansion of this colony was done to forward the trade interests of the Maurel &amp; Prom Company and was carried out by (*) Louis Faidherbe. After the dissolution of this colony, leaders like FÃ©lix HouphouÃ«t-Boigny and LÃ©opold Senghor, among others, took power in the newly formed states. For 10 points, this was what colony, now split into 9 countries including Mauritania, Niger, and Mali?
Due to atrocities like hanging people alive to be eaten by animals and roasting children, a military unit traveling across this colony in 1898-1899 was labeled an "infernal column".
French West Africa (accept Afrique Occidentale FranÃ§aise or AOF; prompt on component colonies/their modern equivalents: Mali (French Sudan), Senegal, Guinea (French Guinea), Niger, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso (Upper Volta), Togo, Benin (Dahomey), or Mauritania)