Chad becomes part of the French colonial…

Chad becomes part of the French colonial empire.

The march of the infamous Voulet-Chanoine Mission through modern Burkina Faso and Niger brings nominal protectorate status to these areas, and forces from Algeria show that a cross-saharan conquest and administration is possible.

Gentile's mission from Gabon, added to these, helps define the practical borders of French and British imperial control, and links the three most stable French colonial possessions in Africa (Senegal and the Upper Niger River Valley, Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville, and Algeria).

In French colonial histories, the Battle of Kousséri is usually seen as the ending point of the Scramble for Africa and the beginning of the "pacification" phase of French West and Equatorial Africa.