Editing History of Chad (section)

==Colonialism (1900&ndash;1940)==
{{main|French Chad|French Equatorial Africa}}
[[Image:Mort du Commandant Lamy.jpg|thumb|Death of Commander Lamy of France, 1900]]
The French first invaded Chad in 1891, establishing their authority through military expeditions primarily against the Muslim kingdoms. The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900, at [[Battle of Kousséri]] between forces of French Major [[Amédée-François Lamy]] and forces of the Sudanese warlord [[Rabih az-Zubayr]]. Both leaders were killed in the battle.

In 1905, administrative responsibility for Chad was placed under a [[governor-general]] stationed at [[Brazzaville]], capital of [[French Equatorial Africa]] (FEA). Chad did not have a separate colonial status until 1920, when it was placed under a [[lieutenant-governor]] stationed in [[Fort-Lamy]] (today N'Djamena).<ref name="locchad17">Collier 1990 p. 17</ref>

Two fundamental themes dominated Chad's colonial experience with the French: an absence of policies designed to unify the territory and an exceptionally slow pace of modernization. In the French scale of priorities, the colony of Chad ranked near the bottom, and the French came to perceive Chad primarily as a source of raw cotton and [[manual labour|untrained labour]] to be used in the more productive colonies to the south.<ref name="locchad17" />

Throughout the colonial period, large areas of Chad were never governed effectively: in the huge [[BET Prefecture]], the handful of French military administrators usually left the people alone, and in central Chad, French rule was only slightly more substantive. Truly speaking, France managed to govern effectively only the south.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Brachet| first1 = Julien| last2 = Scheele| first2 = Judith| title = The Value of Disorder : Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara| publisher = Cambridge University Press| date = 2019| location = Cambridge| pages = 45–86| doi = 10.1017/9781108566315| isbn=9781108566315| s2cid = 181557618}}</ref> As it was full of resources  of gold and aluminum so many countries tried it to colonise but French was successful