Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city. Caillié was...

have for over a century; variants include 'Temboctou' (used by explorer René Caillié) and 'Tombouktou', but they are seldom seen. Variant spellings exist...

other written information on the Great Mosque until the French explorer René Caillié visited Djenné in 1828, years after it had been allowed to fall into...

they directed after exploring the area. These include French explorer René Caillié, who explored the highlands of Guinea at Fouta Djallon, near the source...

pp. 262–277 (available online at: Persee.fr) (in French) 17th century René Caillié Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique centrale,...

defeated by Alpha-Mamoudou Kaba.[citation needed]. The French explorer René Caillié spent a month in Kankan in 1827 during his journey from Boké, in present-day...

local Muslims who were fearful of European intervention. The Frenchman René Caillié arrived in 1828 travelling alone, disguised as a Muslim; he was able...

second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory. 1828 – René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon...

1999, pp. 309–310. Caillié 1830, p. 106 Vol. 2. Caillié 1830, p. 128 Vol. 2. Caillié uses the spelling Trasas or Trarzas. See Caillié 1830, pp. 329–330...

gateways. The first European to visit Tafilalt in the modern era was René Caillié (1828), and later Gerhard Rohlfs (1864). English writer W. B. Harris...