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    Louis-Napoléon Chaltin (1857–1933) was a Belgian career soldier and colonial official notable for his service in the Congo Free State during the late 19th...
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    called Riba Riba, when it was burned down in 1893 by a force led by Louis Napoléon Chaltin striking overland from Bena-Kamba. After being rebuilt, it took...
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    and trading outpost. The Belgian expedition, led by Commandant Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, reached the position after a month-long advance north-east towards...
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    troops of the Congo Free State under Louis Napoléon Chaltin attempted to physically take control of the enclave. Chaltin's forces reached the Nile at the town...
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  • 1897, Belgian commandant Louis-Napoléon Chaltin led a column of eight-hundred men against over two thousand Mahdists. Chaltin was victorious and the battle...
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    base at Rejaf. The second, a much smaller force of 800, was led by Louis-Napoléon Chaltin and took the main road towards Rejaf. Both expeditions set out in...
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    Swahili fighters who escaped earlier defeats by Dhanis. In 1893, Louis-Napoléon Chaltin was head of the Force Publique station at Basoko—the camp at Basoko...
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  • Nyangwe after his father died. In 1893 the Congo Free State officer Louis Napoléon Chaltin defeated the Swahili/Arab forces at Kirundu and expelled them from...
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    second, a much smaller force of only eight-hundred, was led by Louis-Napoléon Chaltin and took the main road towards Rejaf. Both expeditions set out in...
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    the secessionist State of Katanga. Edward A. Burke Lindsay Burke Louis Napoléon Chaltin Camille Coquilhat Alexandre Delcommune Francis Dhanis Paul Ermens...
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  • land to Riba Riba on the Lualaba, bypassing the rapids lower down. Louis Napoléon Chaltin took this route in his 1893 campaign against Arab slavers. In 1891...
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    Alula Engida Tekle Haimanot Oreste Baratieri Giuseppe Arimondi Louis-Napoléon Chaltin Muhammad Ahmad (WIA) Abdallahi ibn Muhammad † Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur...
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    of the artillery attached to a Belgian expedition, commanded by Louis Napoléon Chaltin, sent against the slavers led by Rumaliza. Mohun had risen to the...
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  • of World War I in 1914 he assisted in the defense of Namur in Louis-Napoléon Chaltin's volunteer corps of former colonial troops. Later he founded the...
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  • contending to gain control of the wealth of the Congo. In 1893 Louis-Napoléon Chaltin reached the Stanley Falls station (now Kisangani) when it was on...
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    of 38,588. The town was called Port-Chaltin during the colonial era after the Belgian officer Louis Napoléon Chaltin. It took its current name in 1971....
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    In November 1897 he took over command of the Lado Enclave from Louis-Napoléon Chaltin. He launched the armed steamer Van Kerchhoven and eight whalers...
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    in Dutch Former Namesake Aketi Aketi Port-Chaltin Aketi-Chaltinhaven Named in honour of Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, a colonial military officer of the Congo...
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  • Uele River. On 10 January 1896 he met Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, who was undertaking an expedition against Bili. Chaltin and La Haye decided to move the Bomokandi...
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  • 1928) 27 April – Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, colonial officer (died 1933) 11 August – Cyriaque Gillain, general (died 1931) 25 August – Louis-Gustave Amelot...
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  • enrolled, including Paul Panda Farnana and Adipanga. Under the lead of Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, Adipanga fought during the Siege of Namur, but was captured by...
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