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Juka Sambala
Juka Sambala was king of Khasso on the upper Senegal River in the mid-19th century. An ally of the French, he supported Governor Louis Faidherbe in building a fort at Médine in 1855, and in 1857 he and the fort's commander Paul Holle held out against a siege by the army of El Hadj Umar Tall until Faidherbe relieved them.
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