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    Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city. Caillié was...
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    have for over a century; variants include 'Temboctou' (used by explorer René Caillié) and 'Tombouktou', but they are seldom seen. Variant spellings exist...
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    other written information on the Great Mosque until the French explorer René Caillié visited Djenné in 1828, years after it had been allowed to fall into...
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    they directed after exploring the area. These include French explorer René Caillié, who explored the highlands of Guinea at Fouta Djallon, near the source...
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  • second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory. 1828 – René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon...
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    pp. 262–277 (available online at: Persee.fr) (in French) 17th century René Caillié Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique centrale,...
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  • 1999, pp. 309–310. Caillié 1830, p. 106 Vol. 2. Caillié 1830, p. 128 Vol. 2. Caillié uses the spelling Trasas or Trarzas. See Caillié 1830, pp. 329–330...
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    local Muslims who were fearful of European intervention. The Frenchman René Caillié arrived in 1828 travelling alone, disguised as a Muslim; he was able...
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    year, sandbars lie close to the water surface. When the French explorer René Caillié made the journey to Mopti in a small boat in March 1828, he was "obliged...
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  • Koumpentoum. Bakel is known for its French fort (Fort Bakel), which René Caillié visited in 1819. It was also the area where the Mauritanian crisis occurred...
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    defeated by Alpha-Mamoudou Kaba.[citation needed]. The French explorer René Caillié spent a month in Kankan in 1827 during his journey from Boké, in present-day...
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    Tuaregs were exhibited after the French conquest of Timbuktu (visited by René Caillié, disguised as a Muslim, in 1828, thereby winning the prize offered by...
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    Laing's journal; however, there has never been any evidence for this. René Caillié reached Timbuktu two years after Laing and by returning alive was able...
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  • containing Callie Callie Furnace, a historic iron furnace in Virginia René Caillié (1799–1838), French explorer Calley, a surname "Callie" is the common...
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    gateways. The first European to visit Tafilalt in the modern era was René Caillié (1828), and later Gerhard Rohlfs (1864). English writer W. B. Harris...
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  • and diplomat, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) 1838 – René Caillié, French explorer and author (b. 1799) 1838 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord...
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    Kabadougou Kingdom, of which Odienné was the capital. The French explorer René Caillié visited Odienné in 1827. In 1898, during the French occupation of Cote...
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  • Bouët-Willaumez (West Africa) Jules Braouezec (West Africa, Central Africa) René Caillié (West Africa) Frédéric Cailliaud (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia) Ernest Carette...
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  • ISBN 978-0521136303. Caillié 1830, pp. 87–107. World Weather Information Service - Tombouctou, World Meteorological Organization, retrieved 14 Feb 2011. Caillié (1830)...
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  • Tripoli to explore the Niger. Crossed the Sahara and reached Timbuktu. René Caillié (1799–1838) [1827-28]. Left from Sierra Leone for Timbuktu. After a long...
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    roots") that practiced medicine to cure specific ailments. French explorer René Caillié, the first European to travel to Timbuktu and return alive, described...
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    Verde islands Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French 18th North America René Caillié French 19th North Africa Álvaro Caminha Portuguese 15th São Tomé and...
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    Nevada (via Ebbetts Pass) and the Great Basin. 1828 – French explorer René Caillié is the first European to return alive from Timbuktu. 1829–30 – John Ross...
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  • southern Mali. The village is 25 km north of Koutiala. The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Baramba on 18 February 1828 on his journey to Timbuktu. He...
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    east Africa. Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) (African Great Lakes) René Caillié Hermenegildo Capelo Roberto Ivens Candido José da Costa Cardoso (visited...
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    blacksmiths. The village of Tiémé, in direction of Odienné, sheltered René Caillié at the time of his voyage from Conakry to Timbuktoo, where he was cured...
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    role in the history of the region. In April 1828 the French explorer, René Caillié, stopped at Mopti on his journey by boat from Djenné to Timbuktu. In...
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  • three-month visit to research the bird life. April 20 – French explorer René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu and later return alive...
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    Breillat (1948), film maker and novelist Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), actor René Caillié (1799–1838) explorer, and the first European to return alive from the...
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  • Viguier 2008, pp. 54–55. Caillié 1830, p. 420. Viguier 2008, p. 48. Jacques-Félix, Henri (1963). "Contribution de René Caillié à l'ethnobotanique africaine...
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