Mauretania

The ceremony had been captured on motion picture film that was, the theater advertised, “Now on the Mauretania speeding to New York and by special messenger to Washington.”

The Europeans called the invaders Moors, after Mauretania, the Roman name for North Africa.

The so-called Barkhane force is also involved in Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauretania.

Most of the lifeboats were not originally on the Queen Mary when it sailed its maiden voyage in 1936 but were salvaged over the years from the Mauretania and Queen Elizabeth, according to historians.

The operation was later extended to other countries in an effort to stabilize the broader Sahel region that includes Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauretania.