Caption, View of Canel, and Army of Foutatoro; house of village/town in background; cavalry and infantry in foreground.
African Cavalry and Foot Soldiers, Senegambia, 1818
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African Cavalry and Foot Soldiers, Senegambia, 1818
Gaspard T. Mollien, Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia; performed by command of the French Government in the year 1818, edited by T.E. Bowdich (London, 1820), facing p. 135.
English
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Africa--Western Savanna
Gaspard T. Mollien, Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia; performed by command of the French Government in the year 1818, edited by T.E. Bowdich (London, 1820), facing p. 135.
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
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