Letter from Colonel Strauch to HMS, about the French plans in the Congo, his belief that “France appears in Africa not as a conquering power, but as a commercial nation”, on the mission entrusted to Harou to take possession of a second point on the coast, eventual negotiations with France about the right bank of the mouth of the Kwilu, entreating of him “to make every effort in order to win over to our views some powerful chiefs”, C.É.H.C., Brussels, 6 January 1883

Letter from Colonel Strauch to HMS, about the French plans in the Congo, his belief that “France appears in Africa not as a conquering power, but as a commercial nation”, on the mission entrusted to Harou to take possession of a second point on the coast, eventual negotiations with France about the right bank of the mouth of the Kwilu, entreating of him “to make every effort in order to win over to our views some powerful chiefs”, C.É.H.C., Brussels, 6 January 1883, SA.921. Archives Henry Morton Stanley.

Letter from Colonel Strauch to HMS, about the French plans in the Congo, his belief that “France appears in Africa not as a conquering power, but as a commercial nation”, on the mission entrusted to Harou to take possession of a second point on the coast, eventual negotiations with France about the right bank of the mouth of the Kwilu, entreating of him “to make every effort in order to win over to our views some powerful chiefs”, C.É.H.C., Brussels, 6 January 1883, SA.921. Archives Henry Morton Stanley. Accédé June 13, 2026.