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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Memorandum signed for approval ("N"), with further marks by him in the margin drawing attention to the capacities required of the person to be appointed, Paris, 17-19 September 1806

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Memorandum signed for approval ("N"), with further marks by him in the margin drawing attention to the capacities required of the person to be appointed, submitted at the instigation of Colonel Blanchot, Commandant and Administrator-General of Senegal, requesting that a major (chef de battalion) or captain of artillery be dispatched to serve as his second in command of Senegal and specifying what further reinforcements are necessary, with allowance for the depredations of disease and other factors; the memo headed as issued by the Minister of the Navy, General Administrator of Colonies, Office of the Military, and marked above Napoleon's signature "Apprové. S. Cloud le 19. 7.bre 1806"; docketed the following year, 2 pages, guard on verso, slight dust-staining and some foxing towards the edges, folio, Paris, 17-19 September 1806

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NAPOLEON SENDS REINFORCEMENTS TO THE FRENCH COLONY OF SENEGAL. The French garrison was at this time commanded by the redoubtable Colonel François Blanchot de Verly (1735-1807), who had arrived at Senegal under the Ancien Regime in 1785. Displaced at the Revolution, he was reappointed governor by the First Consul in 1802. The British, who already occupied nearby Gorée, were to seize the colony two years after his death, and erect a monument in memory of the ʻbrave et intègre général Blanchot'.

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