What the records say
- When
- 28 Oct 1899
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 9.85° N, 17.66° E
- Description
- 1899 battle
Battle of Kouno
1899 battle
The battle of Kouno was an inconclusive battle that took place between French troops and the Muslim army led by Rabih az-Zubayr, in the context of French colonial expansion in Africa, and more precisely in Chad.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Battle of Kouno ends after two days in Chad, as French Army Captain Émile Gentil leads a force of 344 troops against a much larger force of Sudanese Arabs”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page