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See also:BARON See also:FRANCIS See also:DHANIS (1861-1909)
, Belgian See also:administrator, was See also:born in See also:London in 1861 and passed the first fourteen years of his See also:life at See also:Greenock, where he received his See also:early See also:education
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He was the son of a Belgian See also:merchant and of an Irish See also:lady named Maher
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The name See also:Dhanis is supposed to be a variation of D'Anvers
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Having completed his c-ducation at the Ecole Militaire he entered the Belgian See also:army, joining the See also:regiment of grenadiers, in which he See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:major
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As soon as he reached the rank of See also:lieutenant he volunteered for service on the See also:Congo, and in 1887 he went out for a first See also:term
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He did so well in See also:founding new stations See also:north of the Congo that, when the See also:government decided to put an end to the Arab domination on the Upper Congo, he was selected to command the See also:chief expedition sent against the slave dealers
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The See also:campaign began in See also:April 1892, and it was not brought to a successful conclusion till See also:January 1894
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The See also:story of this See also:war has been told in detail by Dr See also:Sydney Hinde, who took See also:part in it, in his See also:book The Fall of the Congo See also:Arabs
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The See also:principal achievements of the campaign were the captures in See also:succession of the three Arab strongholds at Nyangwe, Kassongo and Kabambari
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For his services Dhanis was raised to the rank of See also:baron, and in 1895 was made See also:vice-See also:governor of the Congo See also:State
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In 1896 he took command of an expedition to the Upper See also:Nile
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His troops, largely composed of the Batetela tribes who had only been recently enlisted, and who had been irritated by the See also:execution of some of their chiefs for indulging their cannibal proclivities, mutinied and murdered many of their See also: Dhanis found himself confronted with a more formidable adversary than even the Arabs in these well-armed and See also:half-disciplined mercenaries . During two years (1897–1898) he was constantly engaged in a life-anddeath struggle with them . Eventually he succeeded in breaking up the several bands formed out of his mutinous soldiers . Although the incidents of the Batetela operations were less striking than those of the Arab war, many students of both think that the Belgian See also:leader displayed the greater ability and fortitude in bringing them to a successful issue . In 1899 Baron Dhanis returned to See also:Belgium with the honorary rank of vice governor-See also:general . He died on the 14th of See also:November 1909 . |
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