French conquest of Algeria
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Was the French conquest of Algeria. It begun with the French sizing Algiers and other coastal territories of Algeria in 1830. Due to the Algerian resistance, France had slowly to conquer the interior of Algeria over the next 100 years.
Chronology
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December 1900: Expansion of French Algeria by 1900.
July 1830: Capitulation of Algiers to French forces.
August 1830: In 1830, French Generals Bourmont and Damrémont occupied Bône, Oran, and Mers el-Kébir in French Algeria.
September 1830: The French detachments of Bône, Oran and Mers el-Kébir were recalled to Algiers in early August due to political events in France.
December 1830: With regard to the beylik of Titteri, Clauzel's mandate is marked by the expedition led against Blida and then Médéa in November 1830.
February 1831: French forces leave Médéa.
February 1831: Oran was occupied by French General Damrémont in January 1831.
July 1831: Médéa is abandoned by the French.
January 1832: The greater part of the beylik of Oran falls under the control of the sultan of Morocco, Moulay Abderrahmane, who holds Tlemcen and Mascara and is recognized by the Arab tribes.
December 1832: Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine was recognized in November as Emir of the Arabs by the tribes of the Mascara region.
September 1833: Occupation of Bougie by a French column commanded by General Trézel.
January 1834: In Oran, French General Desmichels, acting autonomously, occupies Arzew and Mostaganem.
December 1834: Expansion of French Algeria by 1834.
January 1836: After holding the city for a short-time, French forces left Mascara.
February 1836: In January 1836, French General Bertrand Clauzel led an expedition against Tlemcen, a city in northern Algeria. The expedition resulted in the capture of Tlemcen, further expanding French control in the region during the colonization of Algeria.
November 1836: The Siege of Constantine in 1836 was a conflict between the French forces led by General Damrémont and the local Algerian resistance fighters, including Emir Abdelkader. The siege resulted in the surrender of Constantine to the French, marking a significant victory in their colonization of Algeria.
May 1837: After French imperial forces sustained heavy losses and military reversals in Algeria, the French signed with Abdelkader the Treaty of Tafna in May 1837. The treaty gave the Emir the provinces of Oran, Titteri and part of the province of Algiers.
October 1837: Siege of Constantine (1837).
January 1838: In 1837, the Emir Abdelkader took control of a territory in the province of Oran, Algeria, extending from the Chelif River to Morocco. Abdelkader was a prominent Algerian leader who led a resistance movement against French colonization in the 19th century.
December 1840: Expansion of French Algeria by 1840.
January 1841: Cherchell and Miliana occupied by French forces.
September 1842: French forces occupy the region of the Tell tribes.
December 1847: Surrender of Emir Abdelkader.
December 1847: In 1847, the Emir Abdelkader surrendered to the French forces in the Emirate of Abdelkader, which was located in present-day Algeria. This event marked the end of Abdelkader's resistance against French colonization in North Africa.
December 1848: Expansion of French Algeria by 1848.
December 1870: Expansion of French Algeria by 1870.
December 1930: Expansion of French Algeria by 1930.
December 1934: Expansion of French Algeria by 1934.
July 1830: After the capitulation of the Ottomans in Algeria, the French controlled only the city of Alger.
December 1835: French attack launched against Mascara, the capital of the Emirate of Abdelkader (November-December 1835).
December 1830: Expansion of French Algeria by 1830.
April 1836: The French garrison of Médéa left the city on orders from Paris.
March 1836: A bloody fight with the resistants of Mitidja took place on March 31, 1836 near Thénia de Mouzaïa.
January 1844: In 1841, France sent reinforcements to Algeria led by General Jean-René Sillègue, then stationed in Marseille. The general pacified the regions of Sétif and Kabylie.
November 1836: The Siege of Constantine in 1836 was a military conflict between the French forces led by General Damrémont and the Emir Abdelkader. The siege resulted in the capture of Constantine by the French, marking a significant victory in their conquest of Algeria.
June 1830: The troops of Africa, led by French General Bertrand Clauzel, landed on June 14, 1830 on the peninsula of Sidi Ferruch, 30 km west of Algiers, marking the beginning of the French military occupation of Algeria.
August 1857: Tribes of the Kabylie region surrender to the French.
July 1831: French expedition to Medea in June 1831.
July 1830: Creation of the colony of French Algeria.
December 1847: Abdelkader surrenders to the Duke of Aumale and his Emirate was reintegrated into French Algeria.
The Emirate of Abdelkader was established by Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi with the allegiance of the people of Algeria to resist the French conquest of Algeria.
November 1832: It is an independent state formed on the central and western parts of Algeria during the conquest of Algeria by France.
Selected Sources
Blet, H. (1946): Histoire de la colonisation française : Les étapes d'une renaissance coloniale, 1789-1870, 2, Paris (France), p. 136-137
Pollacchi, C. P. (1930): Les progrès de la pacification française, Collection du Comité Métropolitain du Centenaire de l'Algérie
Yacono, X. (1993): Histoire de l'Algérie de la fin de la Régence turque à l'insurrection de 1954, Paris (France), p. 262
