Kaocen RevoltNiger · 1916–1917“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”Kaocen ag Mohammed had fought the French for a decade across the Sahara before the Sanusi lodges blessed his great throw: in 1916 his Tuareg force took the Aïr mountains and besieged Agadez itself for three months, the only time the desert's rulers nearly took back a colonial capital.