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Frech Activity began in what is now modern Cote d'Ivoire in 1687
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Adm. Louis-Édouard Bouët-Willaumez established French posts at Assinié and Grand Bassam
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After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the small garrisons of Assinié, Grand Bassam, and Dabou were withdrawn.
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Treich-Laplène signed treaties with Indénié, Bettié, Alangoa, and other chiefdoms of the interior, thus preventing British advances into eastern Côte d'Ivoire from Ashanti.
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The new colony's frontier with Liberia was settled by a convention in 1892
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the territory was renamed Côte d'Ivoire, and Col. Binger was appointed the first French governor.
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The railroad, begun in 1904, did not reach the northern part of the
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Systematic military operations in the densely forested area between the upper Cavally and the upper Sassandra were carried out from 1908 onward until French rule was finally established in Côte d'Ivoire on the eve of World War I.
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During World War II, Côte d'Ivoire, like the rest of French West Africa, remained under control of the Vichy government between 1940 and 1943.
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On 7 August 1960, the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire proclaimed its complete independence.