<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon_Laing" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexander Gordon Laing">Major Gordon Laing</a> becomes the first European to enter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu" id="mwcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Timbuktu">Timbuktu</a>.<sup about="#mwt56" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_18#cite_note-10" id="mwcw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwdA">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt53" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1" id="CITEREFChisholm1911"><a href="./Hugh_Chisholm" id="mwBwQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" id="mwBwU" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Laing, Alexander Gordon"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Laing,_Alexander_Gordon" id="mwBwY" rel="mw:ExtLink">"Laing, Alexander Gordon"<span id="mwBwc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></a></span>. <i id="mwBwg"><a href="./Encyclopædia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" id="mwBwk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th<span id="mwBwo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). Cambridge University Press.</cite><span about="#mwt53" class="Z3988" id="mwBws" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Laing%2C+Alexander+Gordon&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&amp;rft.edition=11th&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1911&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+18"></span><link about="#mwt53" href="./Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_a_citation_from_the_1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica_with_Wikisource_reference" id="mwBww" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>