Jump to content

User contributions for Lubiesque

A user with 5,589 edits. Account created on 11 March 2012.
Search for contributionsshowhide
⧼contribs-top⧽
⧼contribs-date⧽
(newest | oldest) View (newer 50 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)

23 November 2024

20 November 2024

19 November 2024

18 November 2024

12 November 2024

3 November 2024

  • 16:5516:55, 3 November 2024 diff hist −64 Fashoda Incident Background: "as a base to combat the slave trade"...LOL, that's a good one. This is more like it: "As Gabriel Baer found, there were five main sources of black slaves in the case of nineteenth century Egypt. The most important source was the south and west of Darfur due to the quantity and reliability of supply. Ongoing wars between the Sultanate of Darfur and neighboring tribes guaranteed a constant supply of slaves who were captured in these wars."

1 November 2024

  • 15:0115:01, 1 November 2024 diff hist +20 Imperial Estate In the first sentence replaced "a part" by an entity or an individual (there was a small number of imperial estates who were individuals who did not rule over a territory). current

31 October 2024

24 October 2024

  • 14:1114:11, 24 October 2024 diff hist −138 Italian Empire Scramble for an empire: Russian advisors and arms played a very minor role. In Guns in Ethiopia (Richard Pankhurst 1965) you see that Menelik's had acquired most of his guns from the Italians themselves, French arm dealers (through Djibouti), the British and to a lesser extent the Russians

22 October 2024

20 October 2024

17 October 2024

14 October 2024

13 October 2024

9 October 2024

6 October 2024

30 September 2024

27 September 2024

25 September 2024

23 September 2024

14 September 2024

  • 18:3018:30, 14 September 2024 diff hist −263 French colonial empire Stop posting and re-posting that nonsense. The French colonial empire, France excluded, had 68,690,000 habitants in 1939 (Encyclopedia Universalis). In 1958, following the loss of Syria/Lebanon (1945), Indochina (1954), Morocco and Tunisia (1956) there probably was no more than 25-30 million left. Tag: Manual revert

8 September 2024

7 September 2024

6 September 2024

5 September 2024

4 September 2024

(newest | oldest) View (newer 50 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)