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Battle of Algiers (1957)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “The Battle of Algiers”
1957 — General Massu’s paratroopers break the FLN’s urban network in the Casbah, and use systematic torture to do it. France wins the battle and loses the argument: the methods turn French and world opinion against the war.
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- Chapter
- Algerian War (chapter 4 of Decolonization of Africa)
- Atlas
- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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