Paul Joalland
Paul-Jules Joalland (8 November 1870 – 27 September 1940)
was a French officer, known mainly for completing the Voulet–
Chanoine Mission.
He was one of the six officers of the latter expedition, and was an
artillery expert with the rank of lieutenant. The Voulet-Chanoine
Mission was commanded by the captains Paul Voulet and Julien
Chanoine, entrusted in 1898 by the government with the mission
to explore and conquer the territories between the Niger River and
Lake Chad, with the ultimate goal to unify, Jointly with other two
similar expeditions, all French territories in West Africa.
The brutalities and massacres committed by the expedition after
leaving Senegal brought the authorities to replace Voulet and
Chanoine with Lieutenant Colonel Klobb; the latter was killed
close to Zinder by Voulet on 14 July 1899, and shortly after Voulet
and Chanoine were killed by their troops, that recognized as Joalland in 1901 by Eugène Pirou
commander Joalland, who was promoted to the rank of captain.
Joalland left Zinder on 3 October, reaching, with 170 riflemen, Lake Chad; hearing later that the
Foureau–Lamy Mission, advancing from the Sahara, was close, he went up the east side of the lake, and
met it on February. The two joint missions, under the command of Major Lamy of the Saharian Mission,
now returned south to Joalland's base camp on the right bank of the Chari River.
On 21 April 1900 Joalland and Lamy encountered the Gentil Mission, that had been proceeding from the
Congo River. The following day all the French forces united clashed with the greatest ruler in the region,
Rabih az-Zubayr; the French triumphed, guaranteeing the conquest of the Chad Basin. Before the end of
the year, Joalland returned with his men back home, after having successfully completed the mission.
In 1927 Joalland was given the honorary title of commander of the Légion d'honneur, the premier
distinction in France. Two years later he was nominated Brigadier General of colonial troops. He died on
28 September 1940.[1]
References
1. Web.genealogie (http://web.genealogie.free.fr/Les_militaires/2GM/France/Terre/Generaux_
Brigade/Generaux_Brigade.htm) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20060527070557/htt
p://web.genealogie.free.fr/Les_militaires/2GM/France/Terre/Generaux_Brigade/Generaux_B
rigade.htm) 2006-05-27 at the Wayback Machine at web.genealogie.free.fr
Gentil, Émile (1971). La chute de l'empire de Rabah. Hachette.
Guyotat, Régis (1999-09-26). "La colonne infernale de Voulet-Chanoine" (https://web.archiv
e.org/web/20060513062050/http://www.ldh-toulon.net/article.php3?id_article=399) (in
French). Le Monde. Archived from the original (http://www.ldh-toulon.net/article.php3?id_arti
cle=399) on 2006-05-13.
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