French forces secure their domination of Chad…

French forces secure their domination of Chad with the defeat and death of the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr at the Battle of Kousséri on April 22, 1900.

The French forces consist of seven hundred troops, plus the six hundred riflemen and two hundred cavalry provided by the allied Bagirmians.

Leaving Kousséri, the French in three columns attack Rabih's camp, and in the ensuing battle, the French commander Major Amédée-François Lamy is killed.

However, Rabih's forces are overwhelmed and, while attempting to flee across the Chari River, Rabih is shot in the head by a skirmisher from the Central Africa mission. 

Hearing there is a bonus for Rabih's corpse, the skirmisher returns to the field and brings back Rabih's head and right hand.

The casualties amount to twenty-eight dead and seventy-five wounded on the French side; one thousand to fifteen hundred dead and more than three thousand wounded on Rabah's side, including women and children accompanying the army.