page_title: Jacques Duchesne
section_title: Franco-Hova war
hierarchical_section_title: Jacques Duchesne / Career / Franco-Hova war
caption_attribution_description: French troops [40e bataillon de chasseurs] disambarking in Madagascar.
context_page_description: General Jacques Charles René Achille Duchesne was a 19th-century French military officer. He was born at Sens and entered Saint-Cyr in 1855, aged 18, and became a lieutenant in 1861.
context_section_description: In 1895, Duchesne led the French invasion of Madagascar in the Second Franco-Hova War, disembarking his 15,000 troops at Majunga, and managing to capture Tananarive after seven months. Twenty French soldiers died fighting and 6,000 died of malaria and other diseases before the Second Franco-Hova War ended. The government signed a treaty that yielded significant powers to the French authorities but left the monarchy intact. Madagascar became a French protectorate.
caption: Landing of part of the French troops under Jacques Duchesne, the 40th Bataillon de Chasseurs à Pied in Majunga, between 5 May and 24 May 1895.
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