3-085-661 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Marchand Expedition at Loango, 1898. 'Captain Marchand's Expedition...another...campaign in the Soudan is to be undertaken by a largely augmented Anglo-Egyptian army under command of the Sirdar, Sir Herbert Kitchener...simultaneously with this advance, no less than five different expeditions, representing the Governments of Great Britain, France, and Belgium respectively, are journeying from various points...into the regions around the Upper Nile...the French force headed by Captain Marchand has begun to loom large upon the Upper Nile...the expedition set forth from the French frontier in West Africa, numbering in all twenty-three white men and five hundred of the native soldiery of French Senegambia, its object being... to occupy Upper Egypt, give the Dervishes some idea of the strength of France, launch French boats on the Upper Nile, and draw a line of union between the French colony and protectorate of Obok, on the Gulf of Aden, and the French possessions on the Congo. Under the supervision of the French Governor of Upper Ubangi, Captain Marchand and his force last year found a valuable base of operations at Bangasso, to which point the necessary equipment of the force was easily transported up the Ubangi River from Loango...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.