Samori Ture cause of death pneumonia
In March 1891, a French force under Colonel Louis Archinard launched a direct attack on Kankan. Knowing his fortifications could not stop French artillery, Ture began a war of manoeuvre. Despite victories against isolated French columns (for example at Dabadugu in September 1891), Ture failed to push the French from the core of his kingdom. In June 1892, Archinard's replacement, Colonel Humbert, leading a small, well-supplied force of picked men, captured Ture's capital of Bissandugu.
In another blow, the British had stopped selling breechloading guns to Ture in accordance with the Brussels Conference Act of 1890.: 134 Ture shifted his base of operations eastward, toward the Bandama and Comoe River in Dabakala after residing in the Kabadougou Kingdom and obtaining extra forces commanded by the faama. He instituted a scorched earth policy, devastating each area before he evacuated it. Though this manoeuvre cut Ture off from Sierra Leone and Liberia, his last sources of modern weapons, it also delayed French pursuit. After the spring of 1893, the French partially succeeded in cutting off Ture's sources of weapons which was supplied by British traders since the late 1880s. Ture tried to negotiate with the British authorities in the Gold Coast to work together against the French, but the British refused to intervene directly against France.He then tried to build an anti-European alliance with the Ashanti Empire, but this attempt failed when the Ashanti Empire was defeated by the British; several skirmishes between Ture's forces and the Southern Nigeria Regiment occurred in 1897. The fall of other African armies, particularly Babemba Traoré at Sikasso, permitted French colonial forces to launch a concentrated assault against Ture. By 1898, he lost almost all of his territory and fled into the mountains of western Ivory Coast. He was captured on 29 September 1898 by the French captain Henri Gouraud and was exiled to Gabon despite his request to return to southern Guinea. : 134–135 Ture died in captivity on an island in the Ogooué River, near Ndjolé on June 2, 1900, following a bout of pneumonia.: 135  His tomb is at the Camayanne Mausoleum, within the gardens of Conakry Grand Mosque.
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