Original: History N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil on May 29 1900 , and named after Amédée-François Lamy , an army officer who had been killed in the Battle of Kousséri a few days earlier .
Simplified: History N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil on May 29 1900 . He was an army officer who had been killed in the Battle of Kousséri a few days earlier .