French return to Senegal

1817 · Saint-Louis

After the Napoleonic Wars, the European treaties returned Saint-Louis and Gorée to France in 1817. Governor Schmaltz settled there and resumed the expansion of the French presence in Senegal. A long era of conquest was beginning — one that would reach, one after another, all the kingdoms of the region.

Sources

• Persée — compte-rendu de Georges Hardy, « La mise en valeur du Sénégal de 1817 à 1854 » (Annales de géographie, 1921)
• Ndarinfo — la Folie du Baron Roger

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