Battle of Rejaf (original) (raw)
La bataille de Redjaf est livrée dans l'enclave de Lado le 17 février 1897, pendant la guerre des Mahdistes. Elle oppose les troupes de l'État indépendant du Congo, commandées par le capitaine Chaltin aux guerriers mahdistes soudanais. Après un premier affrontement victorieux à en fin de matinée, Chaltin poursuit les Derviches et les attaque en fin de journée au village de Redjaf où ils se sont retranchés. Complètement battus, ces derniers abandonnent leurs positions et se replient en désordre vers le Soudan.
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| dbo:abstract | The Battle of Rejaf, or the Battle of Bedden, was fought on 17 February 1897 between the Belgian-led forces of the Congo Free State and Mahdist rebels in South Sudan. The battle resulted in a Congolese victory and the permanent expulsion of the Mahdists from the Lado Enclave, as well as the establishment of a Belgian outpost along the Nile. King Leopold II, the Belgian king and ruler of the Congo Free State, acquired the Lado Enclave in South Sudan from Britain in 1894 as part of a territory exchange which gave the British a strip of land along the eastern Congo for Belgian access to the navigable Nile. However, the territory was overrun with Mahdist rebels who had established their stronghold at the town of Rejaf, which occupied a valuable position for trade along the Nile river. After a wave of new funding from the Belgian government in 1895, King Leopold ordered an expedition to be led into the Lado Enclave to expel the Mahdists and fortify Rejaf as a strategic military and trading outpost. The Belgian expedition, led by Commandant Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, reached the position after a month-long advance north-east towards the Mahdist stronghold. The rebels, numbering two thousand, had established a two-mile line across a range of hills, giving their numerically superior forces a tactical advantage over Chaltin's eight hundred men. After a failed flanking maneuver by the Mahdists, Chaltin's forces stormed the heights and dislodged the rebel defenders. The Congolese companies pursued the retreating Mahdists back towards the town of Rejaf, where a final defense was made and similarly defeated. The victory, achieved at relatively little cost, cleared the Lado Enclave of Mahdist rebels and secured Rejaf as a Belgian base for future operations in the surrounding territories and along the Nile. Rejaf became the seat of government within the Lado Enclave, and remained thus when the British eventually reclaimed the territory in 1910. (en) La bataille de Redjaf est livrée dans l'enclave de Lado le 17 février 1897, pendant la guerre des Mahdistes. Elle oppose les troupes de l'État indépendant du Congo, commandées par le capitaine Chaltin aux guerriers mahdistes soudanais. Après un premier affrontement victorieux à en fin de matinée, Chaltin poursuit les Derviches et les attaque en fin de journée au village de Redjaf où ils se sont retranchés. Complètement battus, ces derniers abandonnent leurs positions et se replient en désordre vers le Soudan. (fr) |
| dbo:causalties | Relatively light |
| dbo:combatant | Mahdist Sudan |
| dbo:commander | dbr:Louis-Napoléon_Chaltin |
| dbo:date | 1897-02-17 (xsd:date) |
| dbo:isPartOfMilitaryConflict | dbr:Mahdist_War |
| dbo:place | dbr:Rejaf dbr:South_Sudan |
| dbo:result | Congo Free State victory |
| dbo:strength | 2,000 Mahdist rebels 500 Azande lancers 800 Congolese regulars |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Redjaf_1897.jpg?width=300 |
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| dbp:caption | Troops of the Congo Free State engage with the Mahdists at Rejaf along the Nile. (en) |
| dbp:casualties | Several hundred killed (en) Relatively light (en) |
| dbp:combatant | dbr:Mahdist_Sudan |
| dbp:commander | Arabi Dafalla (en) Louis-Napoléon Chaltin (en) |
| dbp:conflict | Battle of Rejaf (en) |
| dbp:date | 1897-02-17 (xsd:date) |
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| dbp:partof | the Mahdist War (en) |
| dbp:place | dbr:Rejaf dbr:South_Sudan |
| dbp:result | Congo Free State victory (en) |
| dbp:strength | 500 (xsd:integer) 800 (xsd:integer) 2000 (xsd:integer) |
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| dct:subject | dbc:Former_colonies_in_Africa dbc:History_of_Central_Africa dbc:19th_century_in_Africa dbc:African_resistance_to_colonialism dbc:Battles_of_the_Mahdist_War dbc:Former_Belgian_colonies dbc:Lado_Enclave dbc:Wars_involving_Sudan dbc:Wars_involving_the_states_and_peoples_of_Africa dbc:Belgian_colonisation_in_Africa dbc:Congo_Free_State |
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| rdfs:comment | La bataille de Redjaf est livrée dans l'enclave de Lado le 17 février 1897, pendant la guerre des Mahdistes. Elle oppose les troupes de l'État indépendant du Congo, commandées par le capitaine Chaltin aux guerriers mahdistes soudanais. Après un premier affrontement victorieux à en fin de matinée, Chaltin poursuit les Derviches et les attaque en fin de journée au village de Redjaf où ils se sont retranchés. Complètement battus, ces derniers abandonnent leurs positions et se replient en désordre vers le Soudan. (fr) The Battle of Rejaf, or the Battle of Bedden, was fought on 17 February 1897 between the Belgian-led forces of the Congo Free State and Mahdist rebels in South Sudan. The battle resulted in a Congolese victory and the permanent expulsion of the Mahdists from the Lado Enclave, as well as the establishment of a Belgian outpost along the Nile. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Battle of Rejaf (en) Bataille de Redjaf (fr) |
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| foaf:name | Battle of Rejaf (en) |
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