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French Somaliland

French Somaliland

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French Somaliland, French East African colony which commanded the strait between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. It was originally part of Somalia which had been divided between France, Italy (see Italian Somaliland), and the UK (see British Somaliland) at the end of the nineteenth century. After the fall of France in June 1940 its governor sided with the Vichy regime, but the army commander there, General Paul Gentilhomme, took his troops to fight alongside the British during the East African campaign. The British blockaded it and in December 1942 it joined de Gaulle and the Free French.
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French Somaliland see Djibouti , republic.

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