French Equatorial Africa | French Territory, Africa

French Equatorial Africa , French- Africa Equatoriale Française (AEF) , together four French areas in Central Africa from 1910 to 1959. In 1960, the former territory of Ubangi-Shari (Oubangui-Chari), to which Chad ( Chad) was attached in 1920 to Central African Republic and the Republic of Chad ; Middle Congo (Moyen-Congo) became the Congo Republic, now the Republic of the Congo ; and Gabon became the Republic of Gabon .

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bombardment of haiphong
Hải Phòng has been an important port city for several centuries:it was one of the trading centers of Tonkin. The French nicknamed it the “Venice of Tonkin”. After the French conquest, it became the main French naval base in Indochina. The grand hotel of the time, the Hôtel du Commerce, rue Paul-Ber
Goumiers
Goumier is a term used for Moroccan soldiers, who served in auxiliary units attached to the French army, between 1908 and 1956. The term has also occasionally been used to indicate native soldiers in the French army of Sudan French and Upper Volta during the colonial era. The word comes from the M
Senegalese skirmishers
Senegalese skirmishers are a body of soldiers formed within the French colonial Empire in 1857, the main element of the Black Force. In 1914-1918, around 200,000 Senegalese from the AOF fought in the French ranks, including more than 135,000 in Europe. 30,000 of them died there, and many returned i
Corporal Peugeot
Jules-André Peugeot was a corporal in the French army, born in Étupes on June 11, 1893 and died in Joncherey in the Territoire de Belfort on August 2, 1914. He was the first French soldier to die in the First World War. Coming from a modest background, born in Étupes, in the Doubs, he was destine