Algerian War of Independence

From: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | Date: 2004| Author: JAN PALMOWSKI | Copyright information

Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) On 1 November 1954, hostilities broke out between the Christian colonists of French descent and Algerian Muslim nationalists who were organized into the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) under Ben Bella. Despite its initial inferiority, the brutality of the well-armed French and colonists' troops soon brought the FLN agrar...

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