[1] Lat Jor belonged to the Geej or Guedj Wolof maternal dynasty that had supplied many of the rulers of Cayor and Baol over the preceding centuries.

[8] Lat Jor led Maba's armies, reinforced with his ceddo warriors, in the conquests of the states of Baol and Djolof in July 1865.

[10] They couldn't, however, conquer the Serer Kingdom of Sine and were defeated at The Battle of Fandane-Thiouthioune (18 July 1867) by Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof.

With Amadou Ba's ambitions in Cayor and Lat Jor's support for the exiled Jolof prince Alboury Ndiaye, their former alliance was broken.

With their reinforcement, particularly heavy artillery, Lat Jor won the bloody battle of Samba Saajo in February 1875 and Ba was killed.

[19] The Franco-Adjor alliance broke down in 1883 when Lat Jor began a rebellion to resist the construction of the Dakar to Saint-Louis railway.

"[20] In 1883 the Governor installed one of Lat Jor's nephews, Samba Lawbe Fall, in his place as Damel of a depopulated Cayor.

Samba Lawbe Fall started a war with Jolof that violated a prior treaty with the French; at the ensuing negotiations, a fight broke out and he was killed on October 6, 1886.

[21] Maneuvered into a doomed battle at Dekhele in late December, Lat Jor was killed in action, and the kingdom of Cayor ceased to exist as an independent, united state.

The Cayor ruling class, although always nominally Muslim, had historically been hostile to the stricter religious interpretations promoted by the marabouts.