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Joseph Gallieni

1849–1916 · 19th century

Joseph Gallieni was a French army officer and colonial administrator who commanded in the Upper Senegal and Niger region of French Sudan in the 1880s and served in Tonkin. As governor-general of Madagascar from 1896 to 1905 he abolished the Merina monarchy in 1897, exiled Queen Ranavalona III and crushed resistance. Military governor of Paris in 1914, he helped win the Battle of the Marne and was made a marshal after his death.

Joseph Gallieni
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French SudanFrench Madagascar

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