Eug%C3%A8ne Mage
Eugne Abdon Mage was a French naval officer and explorer of Africa. Mage published the first detailed description of the Toucouleur Empire created by El Hadj Umar Tall.
AbdonEugne Mage was born in Paris. His father, AbdonJeanRen Mage, was head teacher of a private secondary school. His mother, Henriette Cattant, was born in Beauvais and came from a bourgeois family in northern France. At the age ofyears Mage passed the entrance exam for the cole Navale, the French Naval Academy based in Brest, France. Two years later, at the age of 15, he was assigned to the frigate La Forte and in December 1852 set sail for Callao in Peru, stopping at Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Horn and Valparaiso. Over the next two years he served on several ships, transporting troops and visiting Martinique and French Guiana. In the summer of 1855, during the Crimean War, he participated in the AngloFrench blockade of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic. He then returned to Brest and in September 1855 at the age ofwas promoted to the rank of sublieutenant.
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