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Events relating to the french empire
A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders
Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison
The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new black ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques I
The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion
A French army invades Algeria, beginning the process which brings the region within the French empire
Abd-el-Kader proclaims a holy war against the French in Algeria and begins a military campaign that will last for eight years
Napoleon III sends forces to capture the port of Da Nang, beginning the French colonization of Vietnam
France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia
Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia
France invades Tunisia from Algeria, and in the Treaty of Bardo forces the bey of Tunis to accept the status of a French protectorate
French marines land at Tamatave in Madagascar to protect French interests and assert French control
France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina
France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa
The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa
France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony
France incorporates Laos within French Indochina
The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony
French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa
Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain
An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco
Three French colonies south of the Sahara are consolidated as French Equatorial Africa
By the treaty of Fès a French protectorate is formally established in Morocco
France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south
League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon
Ho Chi Minh proclaims the democratic republic of Vietnam, independent of the colonial power, France
