Algerian War
- Period
- November 1954 – March 1962
- Sides
- France vs FLN (Algerian nationalists)
- Battles
- 13
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution, the Franco-Algerian War, or the Algerian War of Independence, was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and war crimes. The conflict also became a civil war between the different communities and within the communities. The war took place mainly on the territory of French Algeria, with repercussions in metropolitan France.
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Battles 13
November 1954
Toussaint Rouge
Toussaint Rouge, also known as Toussaint Sanglante, was a series of 70 attacks committed by militant members of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) that took place on 1 November 1954—the Catholic festival of All Saints' Day—in French Algeria. It is usually taken as the starting date for the Algerian War which lasted until 1962 and led to Algerian independence from France.
August 1955
Philippeville massacre
The Philippeville massacre, also known as the Battle of Philippeville or the August Offensive, was a series of raids launched on 20 August 1955 on various cities and towns of the Constantine region by FLN insurgents and armed mobs during the Algerian War between France and the Algerian rebels. The raids, which mostly took the form of ethnic riots, resulted in the massacre of several dozens of European settlers, known as pieds-noirs. The massacres were then followed by reprisals by the French Army and pied-noir vigilantes, which resulted in the death of several thousand Muslim Algerians. The events of late August 1955 in the Constantinois region are considered to be a major turning point of the Algerian War.
September 1955
First Battle of El Djorf
The First Battle of El Djorf took place on 22 September 1955, during the Algerian War, between the National Liberation Army and the French Army.
January 1957 – October 1957
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957)
The Battle of Algiers, also called the great repression of Algiers, was a campaign fought during the Algerian War. It consisted of urban guerrilla warfare and terrorist attacks carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French authorities in Algiers, and by the French authorities, army, and French terrorist organizations against the FLN.
May 1957
Battle of Agounennda
The Battle of Agounennda was an engagement of the Algerian War fought from the 23–25 May 1957 between the French 3rd Colonial Parachute Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard and FLN’s Commando 41 under Si Azzedine. Bigeard and his regiment were sent to hunt down the Commando after it had carried out several successful ambushes against French units. They met at Agounennda where the French paratroopers tried to ambush the FLN force, but the FLN discovered the French and instead concentrated their force against an outlying French company.
May 1957
Oued Zeggar ambush
The Oued Zeggar ambush, or the battle of Aïn Kechra, was a military operation by the National Liberation Army (ALN) to ambush a French military convoy near Aïn Kechra, Skikda Province, Algeria in 1957.
August 1957
Battle of Bouzegza
The Battle of Bouzegza took place during the Algerian War in the Berber-speaking region of the Adrar Azegzaw massif, at the far eastern end of the Mitidja Plain.
November 1957 – December 1957
Battle of Timimoun
The Battle of Timimoun or Operation Timimoun involved several military confrontations in Timimoun between the French Armed Forces and the ALN.
January 1958 – May 1958
Battle of the borders (Algerian War)
The battle of the borders, also known as the battle of the frontiers, was a group of military operations initiated mainly on the Algeria-Tunisia border during the Algerian War, from 21 January to 28 May 1958, by the paratrooper units of the French army against the attacks, and bombardments of the Morice Line by the combatants of the Armée de libération nationale (ALN), the military branch of the FLN, stationed in Tunisia.
February 1958
Bombing of Sakiet Sidi Youssef
The bombing of Sakiet Sidi Youssef was a significant event of the Algerian Independence War when the French Army conducted an air raid on the Tunisian village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef targeting FLN militants and resulting in 218 civilian casualties, among which 70 dead, including 12 schoolchildren, as part of a series of military operations known as the Battle of the borders. The event sparked an international outcry. The bombing came seemingly as a response to a cross-border raid on 11 January 1958, by the Algerian ALN against a French Army border patrol company, causing the death of 14 French soldiers, two injured, and four captured. According to the French military, the ALN assailants had come from the village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef. The event had since been jointly commemorated by Algeria and Tunisia each 8th of February.
May 1958
Battle of Bab El Bekkouche
The Battle of Bab El Bekkouche during the Algerian War took place on 28 May 1958 in the region of Ouarsenis.
February 1959 – April 1961
Challe Plan
Challe Plan, also known as Challe Offensive, was the codename of a strategic offensive carried out by France in 1959–1961 during the Algerian War. Named after the French general in command, Maurice Challe, the plan resulted in French troops regaining control over much of northern Algeria, weakening the National Liberation Army (ALN) forces for a while and marking a point of maximal French military dominance during the war. Despite some military successes, the Plan failed to achieve its objective, the ALN was not defeated and the cause for Algerian self-determination had only grown more popular, both domestically in France and internationally.
March 1962 – April 1962
Battle of Bab El Oued
The Battle of Bab el Oued was an armed confrontation which occurred during the latter stages of the Algerian War (1954–1962) between the French Army and the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) which opposed Algerian independence. It took place in Bab El Oued, then a working-class European quarter of Algiers, from 23 March to 6 April 1962.
Earlier and later events nearby
- 1415Portuguese conquest of Ceuta
- 1494Treaty of Tordesillas
- 1830Invasion of Algiers (1830)
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