Alexandre Delcommune
![Portrait from [[HM Stanley]]'s book ''The Congo and the founding of its free state; a story of work and exploration (1885)''](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Stanley_Founding_of_Congo_Free_State_225_Mons_del_Commune.jpg)
Alexandre Delcommune (6 October 1855 – 7 August 1922) was a Belgian officer of the armed ''Force Publique'' of the Congo Free State who undertook extensive explorations of the country during the early colonial period of the Congo Free State. He explored many of the navigable waterways of the Congo Basin, and led a major expedition to Katanga between 1890 and 1893.
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