Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and, through his own efforts, the King-Sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885...

13 ијн 2020 · While Leopold harvested massive riches from the exploitation of the natural resources of Congo, his colonists brutally exploited the people of ...

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In 1967, an equestrian statue of Belgian King Leopold II, the owner and absolute ruler of the Free. State of Congo from 1886 to 1908, was taken down and ...

19 окт 2023 · On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his personal possession.

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding ...

Chiedozie Okoro. Page 2. Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883. 2. Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their ...

14 фев 2022 · Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces.

9 ијн 2020 · On 9 June 2020, a statue of King Leopold II (1835-1909) was removed from the public space of Ekeren, Antwerp, where it had stood since 1873.

ory of political survival (Bueno de Mesquita et al 2003). Leopold II was the King of Belgium from 1865 until his death in 1909 and he was the personal owner of ...