algeria

What would have happened if the plot to kill then President of France Charles de Gaulle described in Fredrick Forsyth's 1971 political thriller The Day of The Jackal not actually occurred but also succeeded? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal In 1962 France was suffering from...

Welcome to a new part of the episodes of important historical events in Algeria’s history. Five years after Algeria’s independence, it had direct entry into the Arab-Israeli conflict in the 1967 war, in which Algeria sent a land army and aircraft in the first row on the Egyptian front. After...

With quick information from Algeria’s bright history If we travel 340 years to the past, we will find Algeria governed by one of Algeria’s bravest rulers in history, Baba Hassan. At the beginning of his reign, the King of the Netherlands sent him a peace treaty to become the secure Netherlands...

This was the saying of the Great Emperor Charles V of Europe, so what’s his story? After the fall of Andalusia in 1492 and after its Muslims fled to the coasts of Tlemcen, Oran and some Moroccan cities European Christian monarchies encouraged more and began conducting naval raids on these coasts...

We are still with quotes from ancient history books that can know more about us than we do about ourselves. In your opinion the Algerian President with the longest reign in modern history? Bouteflika 20 years old, no Boumedien 13 years old, no He is Mohammed bin Othman, known as Hajj Mohammed...

During the Algerian War, a coalition of Far-right political figures and French Algerian communities tried to coup the government of (still French) Algeria and make De Gaulle focus once again on continuing the war and preserving the European Algerian political power

According to a book I'm reading (An History of the Arab Peoples), the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War really changed a lot about how Algeria was administered. The French defeat and the fall of Napoleon III weakened the authority of the Algiers government. This meant that the colons...

France doesn't undergo the demographic collapse that occurred OTL throughout the 18th and early 19th century and as a result some of these extra people go on to settle and colonise North Africa. Furthermore, because France would have a far higher population proportional to the natives they are...

I was going to do a thread with a Pod of no French invasion of Algeria but remarked that I found the idea of a Abdelkader ruled Algeria more interesting than a surviving regency of Algiers and he won’t rule Algeria without French invasion . The POD isn’t really important there may can even be...

IOTL the French conquered Algeria through a series of wars and campaigns starting in 1830 and continuing through the rest of the century. The result was that Algeria, due to it's proximity to mainland France and climatic similarities to the south, ended up receiving a substantial French...

During the last days of the Bourbon Restoration, Charles X of France knew that public opinion was turning against him. To shore up his popularity, he decided he should obtain some kind of foreign policy victory. Deteriorating relations with Ottoman Algeria provided him with an opportunity, and...

What if France won the Algerian war for Independence and kept it as a colony or Department of some kind. How would the culture/ treatment of natives etc look.

Had France fought on in Algeria in 1940 (and eventually won), keeping a butterfly net until 1945, how would things have changed regarding Algerian independence? Would France have been much more likely to keep Algeria due to its new place in French cultural consciousness, demographic change, and...

Algeria was in the state of a post-independence flux. There is a process of nearly a million, former colonialists, the Pieds-Noire, leaving Algeria. They take with them, civil servants, technocrats, businessmen, and merchants. They left behind their restaurants, shops, small businesses...

What if instead of all the Pied Noirs fleeing en masse like OTL they tried to create their own nation state? How possible would it be for France/Pied Noirs, either by negotiation or military use of force to carve a small slice of Algeria for a permanent nation for the Pied Noirs? The mostly...

Could it be possible that in the 20th Century that waves of European immigrants could settle in various African colonies like Namibia, South Africa, Algeria, Rhodesia, and Kenya? What would have to require for this to happen? Could large white majorities be formed in the colonies? And what would...

For this scenario, I would like to know anyone's thoughts on Spain devoting their resources (military, economic, food) to colonizing North Africa instead of the New World. This is part of a larger scenario I'm working on where the Spanish have a merchant and trading relationship with the New...

So, basically, assume that anytime between the Suez Crisis and De Gaulle's pronunciamento in response to General Salan's invitation into government in may 1958, De Gaulle suffers a stroke and dies, or is murdered. What happens to the agonizing political climate of the later French Fourth...

The Algerian Partition Plan (1961-?) Alain Peyrefitte, He was a confidant of Charles De Gaulle and had a long career in public service, serving as a diplomat in Germany and Poland. Peyrefitte is known for his Algerian Partition Plan. It is November 19, 1961, President Charles de Gaulle...

Hey guys I’ve been reading and posting on this sight for a few years now and so decided to post my first attempt at a Timeline. I know that writing a timeline about civil conflict in France at this particular time is a little bit morbid, however the recent unrest has reminded me of a draft I...