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In the early 1880s however, the French colonial faction, the right-wing Catholic lobby and Réunion parliamentarians all advocated an invasion of Madagascar in order to suppress British influence there. [3] The non-respect of the Lambert Charter and the letter to Napoleon III were used by the French as the pretext to invade Madagascar in 1883. [2]
The Villars class of unprotected cruisers was a group of four ships built for the French Navy in the mid-1870s and early 1880s. The class comprised Villars , Forfait , Magon , and Roland . They were designed as part of a naval construction program aimed at modernizing the French fleet in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War , and were ...
Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies, 1930. In 1882, the French Third Republic established a protectorate over the Merina Kingdom on the island of Madagascar, with the consent of the United Kingdom. The French position on the island was solidified by the First Madagascar expedition (May 1883 to December 1885, the first phase of the Franco-Hova ...
Many Malagasy were conscripted to fight for France during the First (1914–1918) and Second World Wars (1939–1945), and during the latter Madagascar came under Vichy French control before being captured by the British in the Battle of Madagascar and returned to Free French control in 1942.
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She arrived there in late 1885, as the First Madagascar expedition was nearing its close; when the conflict ended in December that year, Nielly was sent to neighboring Zanzibar to announce the establishment of a French protectorate over Madagascar. [14] In 1887, Nielly replaced the cruiser Naïade as the flagship of the Indian Ocean division. [15]
France invaded Madagascar in 1883, in what became known as the first Franco-Hova War, seeking to restore the cancelled concessions. With the signing of the Treaty of Tamatave in January 1886, the war ceased. Madagascar ceded Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) on the northern coast to France and paid a hefty fine of 10 million francs.
Madagascar; or, Robert Drury’s Journal, during fifteen years captivity on that island at the Internet Archive; Raymond K. Kent (1962). From MADAGASCAR to the MALAGASY REPUBLIC. Greenwood Press. pp. 285. ISBN 0-8371-8421-5. – a detailed résumé of Drury's adventures can be found in pages 55–71 of this book. Michael Pearson Parker (2002).