Qualla: Georges Le Marinel https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Georges Le Marinel https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel Georges Le Marinel: Introduction https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel/ Georges-Edouard le Marinel was born in Davenport, Iowa, on 29 June 1860. His father Amédée was a French soldier from Normandy who had fought in the Belgian revolution of 1830, served eighteen years in the Belgian army, then sailed for America in 1858 and started a farm at Long Grove, Iowa. The family returned to Belgium in 1868. Georges attended military school, made second lieutenant in 1879, became an engineer in 1882. By the end of the decade, he was on the Congo River with a survey party. By the middle of the next decade, he was drawing borders across central Africa - the lines that today divide the Central African Republic from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and that run along the Mbomou, the Ubangi, and deep into the savanna country of what was then Dar Fertit.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/0/r/georges-le-marinel-wp/s90r-georges-le-marinel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Georges Le Marinel: Iowa Farm to Léopoldville Post https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel/ Le Marinel's first Congo tour ran from 1884 to 1887. He went out under the International Association of the Congo, the private entity that was the precursor of King Leopold II's Congo Free State - a regime that would become one of the nineteenth century's most notorious examples ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/0/r/georges-le-marinel-wp/s90r-georges-le-marinel-iowa-farm-to-l-opoldville-post.mp3 0:06 2 full Georges Le Marinel: The Ubangi Expeditions https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel/ In May 1889, Le Marinel joined Alphonse van Gèle's fourth Ubangi expedition. They left Léopoldville aboard the steamers En Avant and Association internationale Africaine, with a large canoe. At Zongo they founded a base, nearly losing the Association internationale Africaine in t...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/0/r/georges-le-marinel-wp/s90r-georges-le-marinel-the-ubangi-expeditions.mp3 0:06 3 full Georges Le Marinel: Treaties with Sultans https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel/ In November 1891, Van Gèle handed command to Le Marinel and left for Europe. Le Marinel met Sultan Bangassou - one of the most powerful rulers of the Zande country - and then traveled up the Mbari River, where in September 1892 he established the Bakouma post with Commander Georg...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/0/r/georges-le-marinel-wp/s90r-georges-le-marinel-treaties-with-sultans.mp3 0:06 4 full Georges Le Marinel: The Third Tour, and the Line That Stuck https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel/ Le Marinel's third tour (1893-1895) brought him back as state inspector of Haut-Ubangi-Mbomou. He commanded expeditions that pushed toward Dar Fertit and the Bahr el-Ghazal - country that interested both Belgian Congo Free State ambitions and the French, who were pushing east fro...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/0/r/georges-le-marinel-wp/s90r-georges-le-marinel-the-third-tour-and-the-line-that-stuck.mp3 0:06 5 full Georges Le Marinel: Ministry, War, and an Edinburgh Death https://qualla.com/georges-le-marinel/ Le Marinel went home on leave in 1895 and was assigned to the Ministry of Colonies in Brussels. He held senior posts in the Congo Free State bureaucracy and later the Belgian colonial administration. When the First World War broke out in 1914, he rejoined the army as a captain-co...

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