Global InformationFrench conquest of Algeria information
| French conquest of Algeria | |||||||
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| Part of the French colonization of Africa | |||||||
 La prise de Constantine by Horace Vernet | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Morocco (1847) |
 Emirate of Mascara Kingdom of Ait AbbasSultanate of Tuggurt Kel Ahaggar Awlad Sidi Shaykh Various other tribal confederations Various bandits Support: Morocco (until 1844) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Charles X  Louis Philippe I Napoleon III Adolphe Thiers Jules Grévy Émile Loubet Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisne de Bourmont Sylvain Charles Valée Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont † E. Pellissier de Reynaud Aimable Pélissier Louis Juchault de Lamoricière Baron Pierre Berthezène G. Stanislas Marey-Monge Duc Henri d'Orléans Bertrand Clauzel Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans Louis Henri de Gueydon Théophile Voirol Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon Viala Charon Jacques Louis Randon Jean Louis Marie Ladislas Walsin-Esterhazy Edmond-Charles de Martimprey Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul Antoine Chanzy Thomas Robert Bugeaud Marie Alphonse Bedeau Nicolas Changarnier Anne Jean Marie René Savary |
 Hussein Dey Ahmed Bey Emir Abdelkader Dély Ibrahim Hassan Bey Ben-Zaamoum Mostéfa Boumezrag Ali ben Aïssa Ahmed bin Salem Mohammed Ben Allel † Cheikh Bouhamedi Cheikh Mokrani † Boumezrag Mokrani Cheikh El Haddad  Si Aziz Soliman IV Cheikh Bouamama  Lalla Fatma Sherif Boubaghla †Mohammed ag Bessa † Aytarel ag Muhammad Attici ag Amellal | ||||||
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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117,630–200,000 military losses (including 7,469 killed in action, 1830–1875)[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] 480,000 total dead (civilians and soldiers, 1830–1862)[10] | 500,000–1,000,000 total dead (mostly civilians, 1830–1860) [11][12][10][13][14] | ||||||
The French conquest of Algeria (French: Conquête de l'Algérie par la France; Arabic: الغزو الفرنسي للجزائر) took place between 1830 and 1903. In 1827, an argument between Hussein Dey, the ruler of the Regency of Algiers, and the French consul escalated into a blockade, following which the July Monarchy of France invaded and quickly seized Algiers in 1830, and seized other coastal communities. Amid internal political strife in France, decisions were repeatedly taken to retain control of the territory, and additional military forces were brought in over the following years to quell resistance in the interior of the country.
Initially, the Algerian resistance was mainly divided between forces under Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif at Constantine, seeking to reinstate the Regency of Algiers, primarily in the east, and nationalist forces in the west and center. Treaties with the nationalists under Emir Abdelkader enabled the French to first focus on the elimination of the remnants of the Deylik, achieved with the 1837 Siege of Constantine. Abd Al-Qādir continued to give stiff resistance in the west. Finally driven into Morocco in 1842, by large-scale and heavy-handed French military action, he continued to wage a guerrilla war until the Moroccan government, under French diplomatic pressure following its defeat in the Franco-Moroccan War, attacked him and drove him out of Morocco. He surrendered to French forces in 1847. Some governments and scholars have considered France's conquest of Algeria as constituting a genocide.[15][16][17]
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- ^ Tucker (2009), p. 1167.
- ^ Kateb, Kamel; Benjamin Stora (2001). Européens, « indigènes » et juifs en Algérie (1830-1962): représentations et réalités des populations (in French). Paris: INED. pp. 11–14. ISBN 2-7332-0145-X..
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by 1870 the army had lost over 150,000 men. As for the wider carnage, Urbain states in 1862 that the previous 32 years had killed, at a conservative estimate, over 480,000 people, not just soldiers. The troops suffered most at first but then, as barracks and hospitals were built, it was civilians who fell sick in greater proportion – and the natives probably lost over 500,000 souls
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