Faidherbe
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Growing up, she and her peers would refer to the general as Maam Faidherbe, Grandpa Faidherbe.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
The uncertainty around the Faidherbe statue echoes the reckoning that has gripped Senegal, a West African nation of 17 million people that became independent from France in 1960.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
Even his home city, Lille, is debating the future of a Faidherbe statue in its central square.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
Fatima Fall Niang, the director of Saint-Louis’s conservation center, said that she welcomed the new light shed on Senegal’s colonial history, but argued that Saint-Louis wouldn’t be what it is today without Faidherbe.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
By boldly advancing the French outposts on the upper Senegal Faidherbe stemmed the Moslem advance, and by an advantageous treaty with Omar in 1860 brought the French possessions into touch with the Niger.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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