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Leopold II

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Leopold II 1835-1909.
King of Belgium (1865-1909) who also reigned in the Congo Free State (later Zaire, now Congo) from 1876 to 1904, when he was forced to abdicate because of his harsh treatment of the native population.
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1. (Biographies / Leopold II (1747-1792) M, German, POLITICS: hereditary ruler, Louis XVI) 1747-92, Holy Roman Emperor (1790-92). He formed an alliance with Prussia against France (1792) after the downfall of his brother-in-law Louis XVI
2. (Biographies / Leopold II (1835-1909) M, Belgian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1835-1909, king of the Belgians (1865-1909); son of Leopold I. He financed Stanley's explorations in Africa, becoming first sovereign of the Congo Free State (1885)
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To add to the fiendishness of their cruel savagery was the poignant memory of still crueler barbarities practiced upon them and theirs by the white officers of that arch hypocrite, Leopold II of Belgium, because of whose atrocities they had fled the Congo Free State--a pitiful remnant of what once had been a mighty tribe.
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