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[147]: 222–5 One of the few military histories of the war was The Algerian Insurrection, by the retired British Army officer Edgar O'Ballance, who wrote with unabashed admiration for French high command during the war and saw the FLN as a terrorist group. O'Ballance concluded that the tactics which won the war militarily for the French lost ...
The regular element of the Algerian People's National Army remained at a level of 60,000-70,000 after independence until 1969 when conscription was introduced. Most conscripts however were employed on non-military duties after doing their basic training. Following the end of the Algerian War (1962) most of France's North African units were ...
Boumédiènne described the military coup as a "historic rectification" of the Algerian War of Independence. Boumédiènne dissolved the National Assembly, suspended the 1963 constitution, disbanded the militia, and abolished the Political Bureau, which he considered an instrument of Ben Bella's personal rule.
Algerian War (1954–1962 ... Sulla captured Jugurtha and brought the war to a conclusive end. ... rather than just a military base in the war against ...
Algerian Military Victory; Second Barbary war (1815) Location: Mediterranean Sea: Deylik of Algiers United States: American victory. Freedom of movement in the Mediterranean for American ships; Bombardment of Algiers (1816) Location: Algiers Bombardment of Algiers 1816, George Chambers: Deylik of Algiers: British Empire Dutch Empire
The Battle of Algiers [a] (also called the great repression of Algiers) [b] [5] 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. [6]
The Accords ended the 1954–62 Algerian War with a formal cease-fire proclaimed for 19 March and formalized the status of Algeria as an independent nation and the idea of cooperative exchanges between the two countries.
The Algerian War had been underway since 1954. The Évian Accords of 18 March 1962 brought an end to the conflict. The Accords, which were reached during a cease-fire between French armed forces and the Algerian nationalist organisation the Front de libération nationale (FLN), began the process of transfer of power from the French to the Algerians.