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Kingdom of Great Britain (1798–1800) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801) Kingdom of France (Royalists in exile, 1799) Irregular and auxiliary forces: Nablus tribesmen [2] Bedouin tribesmen (1798–1799, 1801) Albanian bashi-bazouks French Republic. Armée d'Orient; Commanders and leaders; Selim III Yusuf Pasha Mustafa Pasha ...
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
[97] In 1905, the French abolished slavery in most of French West Africa. [98] From 1906 to 1911, over a million slaves in French West Africa fled from their masters to earlier homes. [99] In Madagascar over 500,000 slaves were freed following French abolition in 1896. [100]
The Scramble for Africa [a] was the invasion, conquest, and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the late 19th century and early 20th century in the era of "New Imperialism": Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
French victory Quasi-War (1798–1800) Location: Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Seas USS Constellation vs. L'Insurgente: French Republic. Guadeloupe United States. Co-belligerent: Great Britain. Convention of 1800. Peaceful cessation of Franco-American alliance; End of French privateer attacks on American shipping
While the British sought to follow a process of gradual transfer of power and thus independence, the French policy of assimilation faced some resentment, especially in North Africa. [22] The granting of independence in March 1956 to Morocco and Tunisia allowed a concentration on Algeria where there was a long ( 1954–62 ) and bloody armed ...
French defeat Seven Years' War (1756–1763) French and Indian War (1754–1763) Third Carnatic War. Location: Europe, North America, Asia St. Lawrence and Mohawk theater. Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Battle of Plassey; West Indies Campaign (1757–1762) Location: West Indies; West African Campaign. Location: West Africa France New France ...
French Algeria (French: Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; [1] unofficially Algérie française, [2] [3] Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France.