3 companies of the 4th Battalion of the Foreign Legion
4 squadrons of Chasseurs d'Afrique [3]
15,000 cavalrymen[4] (French claim)
Casualties and losses
300[5]-2,000[6]
500[7]
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French conquest of Algeria
War against the Deylik (1830–1837)
Pre-invasion
Bay of Algiers (1827)
Dellys (1830)
Invasion of Algiers
Sidi Fredj (1830)
Staouéli (1830)
Sidi Khalef (1830)
Bordj Moulay Hassan (1830)
Mitidja (Beylik of Titteri)
1st Blida (1830)
Médéa (1830)
Médéa (1831)
El Harrach (1831)
El Harrach (1832)
Hadjout (1834)
Beylik of Oran
Oran (1831)
Beylik of Constantine
Annaba (1832)
1st Béjaia (1831)
2nd Béjaia (1833)
3rd Béjaia (1835)
1st Constantine (1836)
2nd Constantine (1837)
War against Abdelkader (1832–1847)
First Kaderian war (1832–1834)
Kheng-Nettah (1832)
Second Kaderian war (1835–1838)
Sig (1835)
Macta (1835)
Habrah (1835)
Mascara (1835)
Tlemcen (1836)
Sikkak (1836)
Reghaia (1837)
Beni Aicha (1837)
Boudouaou (1837)
Issers (1837)
Somah (1837)
Third Kaderian war (1839–1847)
Mitidja (1839)
Ammal (1840)
Beni Mered (1842)
Smala (1843)
Tadmaït (1844)
Dellys (1844)
Sidi Brahim (1845)
Issers (1846)
Oued Aslaf (1847)
Agueddin (1847)
Pacification of Algeria
Zaatcha (1849)
Laghouat (1852)
Sebaou River (1854)
Tachekkrit (1854)
Mokrani Revolt
Palestro (1871)
Touggourt (1871)
Flatters expeditions
Battle of Tit
The Battle of Macta was fought on 28 June 1835 between French forces under General Camille Alphonse Trézel and a coalition of Algerian tribes of western Algeria under Emir Abd al-Qadir, who, at the age of 26, waged one of his most famous battles against a superior force.
The French column, which had fought an inconclusive but somewhat bloody battle with Abdul-Qadir a few days earlier, was retreating toward Arzew to resupply when Abdul-Qadir attacked in the marshes on the banks of the Macta River in what is now western Algeria.
The French panicked and fled to Arzew in a disorganized rout. The Algerians piled the heads of their defeated French enemies in a pyramid, allegedly hundreds in total.[8]
The disaster led to the recall to France of Trézel and the comte d'Erlon, the first military governor-general of the French possessions in Africa, and helped Abdul-Qadir gain influence over tribes throughout Algeria.[citation needed]
^Emerit 2010, pp. 18–19.
^Garnier, Jacques (2004). Dictionnaire Perrin des guerres et des batailles de l'histoire de France. Perrin. p. 35. ISBN 9782262008291.
^général Grisot - Lieutenant Coulombon, La Légion étrangère de 1831 à 1887, 1888, p.20
^Garnier, Jacques (2004). Dictionnaire Perrin des guerres et des batailles de l'histoire de France. Perrin. p. 35. ISBN 9782262008291.
^Garnier, Jacques (2004). Dictionnaire Perrin des guerres et des batailles de l'histoire de France. Perrin. p. 35. ISBN 9782262008291.
^The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Rowman Altamira. 2003. ISBN 9780759101906.
^The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Rowman Altamira. 2003. ISBN 9780759101906.
^Churchill, Charles Henry (1867). The life of Abdel Kader, ex-sultan of the Arabs of Algeria; written from his own dictation, and comp. from other authentic sources. By Colonel Churchill. London Chapman and Hall. p. 77.
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