Description: An artists rendering of a journalist's sketch of the Battle of Samba Sadio in February 1875. This drawing contains the following caption, "Colonies Françaises - Le Sénégal. - Combat de Boumdou. - Le marabout Amadou Sekou est battu par la colonne expéditionnaire commandée par le lieutenant-colonel Bégin."

Date: 1875

Date Range: 1870-1879

Location: near Saint-Louis, Senegal

Format: Image/jpeg

Rights Management: For educational use only.

Contributing Institution: David Robinson; MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University

Digitizer: MATRIX

Source: Le Monde Illustre, 8 May 1875. Le Monde Illustre was a popular journal which circulated widely in France in the late 19th century.