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... Algeria and Indo - China . Algeria , on the eve of the French invasion of 1830 , was an independent republic stretching from the fringes of the Sahara to the rugged coast of the Mediterranean . For generations the Algerian pirates had ...
... Algeria and Indo - China . Algeria , on the eve of the French invasion of 1830 , was an independent republic stretching from the fringes of the Sahara to the rugged coast of the Mediterranean . For generations the Algerian pirates had ...
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... Algerians were fearless horsemen , the French conquest of the Algerian coastline was slow and expensive . In 1833 , three years after the capture of Algiers , French forces held only three ports , and even their suburbs were not secure ...
... Algerians were fearless horsemen , the French conquest of the Algerian coastline was slow and expensive . In 1833 , three years after the capture of Algiers , French forces held only three ports , and even their suburbs were not secure ...
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... Algerian resistance was led brilliantly by Abd - el- Kader , a direct descendant of Mohammed . He had returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca and Baghdad not long before the French began their invasion ; and in 1832 , when he was aged no ...
... Algerian resistance was led brilliantly by Abd - el- Kader , a direct descendant of Mohammed . He had returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca and Baghdad not long before the French began their invasion ; and in 1832 , when he was aged no ...
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