"We went to live in full Portuguese territory without the permission of Portugal. I don't quite understand our claim."

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 4. Viceroys without colonial aspirations? Jules Devaux (1828-1886) Jules Devaux dared to reprove the king himself every now and then for the madness of his colonial plans. Thus he wrote to him in October 1883, when a conflict with Portugal over the sovereignty of the Congolese coasts was in the making. AKP. Archives relating to the external development of Belgiu