MY MARCH TO TIMBUGTOO BY GENERAL JOFFRE WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY ERNEST DIMNET NEW YORK DUFFIELD COMPANY 1915 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PREAMBLE 51 CHAPTER I MABOH ON TIMBUOTOO From S6gou to Tel From Te 16 to OudiabS From Oudiab6 to Soumpi After Soumpi Touareg Method of Fighting Our MarchThe Camp The Natives Combat of Niaf ounk6 20th January March on M6kor6 and Atta March on Goundam Tendirma Expedition Crossing the Marigot of Gonndam March on Farasch Value of having a Post at Goundam From Goundam to Timbuctoo 68-85 ...
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MY MARCH TO TIMBUGTOO BY GENERAL JOFFRE WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY ERNEST DIMNET NEW YORK DUFFIELD COMPANY 1915 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PREAMBLE 51 CHAPTER I MABOH ON TIMBUOTOO From S6gou to Tel From Te 16 to OudiabS From Oudiab6 to Soumpi After Soumpi Touareg Method of Fighting Our MarchThe Camp The Natives Combat of Niaf ounk6 20th January March on M6kor6 and Atta March on Goundam Tendirma Expedition Crossing the Marigot of Gonndam March on Farasch Value of having a Post at Goundam From Goundam to Timbuctoo 68-85 OHAPTEB H OCCUPATION OF THE BEGHON Fort Bonnier Kabara Blockhouse The Post of Korium6 Occupation of G-oundam 86-98 6 CONTENTS OHAPTBB III THE GBOGBAPHY OF THE BEGION PAGE City of Timbuctoo Kegion of Timbuctoo 94-105 OHAPTBE IV ETHNOGBAPHY Tonareg Tribes Notes on the Touareg Arab Tribes 106-124 OHAPTEE V OPERATIONS AGAINST THE TOTJABEG Situation at the Time of our Arrival at Timbuotoo Destruction of the Touareg Camp of Takayegourou Killi Expedition Submission of the Country-Expedition against the Irreganaten Operations against the Iguellad Expedition against the Kel-Temoulai 126-168 CHAPTEB VI COMMUNICATIONS Biver Communication Telegraphic Communication-Topographical Service Situation on July 10, 1894 164-169 PLAN OF TIMBUOTOO to face page 88 MAP OP THB BXPHDITION 170 MY MARCH TO TIMBUCTOO INTRODUCTION I. JOFFRE THE SOLDIER JOSEPH-JACQUES-CESAIRE JOFFPJE was born at Rivesaltes on January 12, 1852. Bive saltes is a town of six thousand inhabitants, six miles north of Perpignan, in the depart ment of Pyrnes-Orientales, the most southern of France, formed at the Revo lution from the province of Roussillon. The population is different from that of the neighbouring countryextending between Toulouse and Narbonne. The Roussillon people are mountaineers, speaking a Catalan dialect near akin to that spoken on the other side of the Pyrenees. All except very old peasants understand French, but it is none the less true that both the B 2 MY MARCH TO TIMBUCTOO language and the sequestered situation of the Roussillon valleys isolate the Catalans from their neighbours in the plains. Their characteristics are quite as marked as those of a Gaelic neighbourhood in the north of Scotland might be thirty years ago. Like all the mountaineers in the south of France they are either silent and almost sullen, or over-excited but they have much native dignity and natural elegance. A true Spanish courtesy never leaves them, even when heated and on the verge of anger. A sister of General Joffre who recently gave to an inquirer valuable information about her parentage, says that there is a tradition in the family attributing to them a Spanish origin. The generals great-grand father is supposed to have been a Spaniard of good birth, who left his country for political reasons, and on becoming French changed his name, which was de Gouffre to Joflre. A few hours spent at the Rive saltes town-hall in a rapid investigation of the records would be enough to ascertain whether there is more in this tradition than the universal taste for ancestry belonging to INTRODUCTION 8 rising families. It certainly seems unlikely that a Spaniard should have been called de Gouffre, which is as French a name as any. The grandfather of General Joffire was in some business, and apparently he was more attentive to his affairs than to his family. He had several daughters, and late in life one son thegenerals father who was left to become what he might. He became a cooper, married, came into a little money which had been bequeathed to him by his mother, turned it to good account, and managed to rear eleven children, and at the same time to make himself the proprietor of a small estate outside the town. This industrious artisan must have been a very different type from his own sire he centred all his attention upon his children and their education...
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