The Battle of Logandème

The Battle of Logandème
19th century junjung of Sine
Date 18 May 1859 Location Fatick, (Kingdom of Sine), now part of Senegal 14°40′N 17°25′W Result French victory
Belligerents
French Empire	Kingdom of Sine
Commanders and leaders
Louis Faidherbe (French governor of Senegal) Émile Pinet-Laprade (of France, future governor of Senegal)	Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof (King of Sine - "Maad a Sinig")
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Units involved
Louis Faidherbe : Émile Pinet-Laprade French ally forces...etc	Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof : Ndam Sanou Diakhaté Army of Sine
The battle started around 9 am. About 30 minutes later, the Serer forces overwhelmed by French military might, retreated. However, within few minutes they reappeared on the battlefield and attempted twice to dent the French ranks. They failed and were defeated by the French forces. Ndam Sanou and Diakhaté were among those killed. The former died on the battlefield whilst the latter died later from the injuries he had sustained at the battlefield.

Louis Faidherbe :

Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof :

The Battle of Logandème (18 May 1859) was an uprising led by Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof, king of Sine, against the French Empire. The battle took place at Logandème (in Fatick) which was a part of Sine at the time.

After the defeat of Queen Ndateh Yalla Mbooj of Waalo in 1855,Louis Faidherbe decided to launch wars against the kingdoms of Sine and Saloum, and declared all previously signed treaties between the two kingdoms and France null and void and asked for the establishment of new treaties on Faidherbe's terms. According to scholars like Klein, that was a huge mistake on the part of the French, because it paved the way for the future Serer kings to use the same tactic against the French, in particular Maad a Sinig Sanmoon Faye, the successor of Maad Kumba Ndoffene Famak in 1871. The revocation of the excessive traditional customs duties paid by the French merchants to the Crown, the Serer kings refusal to have the French buy and own land in Serer countries or to build in masonry (see Maad a Sinig Ama Joof Gnilane Faye Joof) were all contributory factors to this war. In May 1859, Faidherbe arrived in Gorée with 200 tirailleurs and 160 marines. He then gathered the Gorée garrison, the people of Gorée, Rufisque and the Lebou people of Dakar to fight against the Serers of Sine. In a letter sent to Paris regarding how he supposedly managed to obtain the support of the Wolofs and the Lebou people, he reports:

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