The Battle of Alma or Battle of Boudouaou, which broke out on 19 April 1871, was a battle of the Mokrani Revolt by Algerian rebels against France, which had been the colonial power in the region since 1830.[1]
Advancing from Palestro towards Algiers, the fighters were stopped at Boudouaou (Alma) on 22 April 1871.[4]
The Algerian rebels then made a fatal error in their advance towards Algiers, by igniting a fire in the woods around Reghaïa which alerted the French garrison.[5]
French counter-attackEdit
The Governor General of Algiers, Louis Henri de Gueydon, decided to retake the colony of Alma by sending on April 21, 1871, an expeditionary unit tasked with stopping the march of the Algerian masses who were threatening the Mitidja.[6]
The Algerian rebels trying to invade Mitidja were only stopped in Alma by the French-Algerian unit, and Colonel Fourchault's snipers.[10]
Colonel Fourchault and his snipers, after having stopped the Algerian insurrection in Alma on April 22, 1871, then marched on the Col des Beni Aïcha to dislodge the Algerian resistance fighters and punish the Kabyle population who supported them, before clearing and freeing Palestro and discovering the massacre of European settlers by supporters of Cheikh Mokrani.[11]
^"Histoire: La Légion face à la révolte Kabyle en 1871". FSALE.
^Watbled, Ernest (1873). "Un Épisode de l'Insurrection Kabyle de 1871: l'Alma. — Palestro". Revue des Deux Mondes (1829-1971). 108 (3): 625–640. JSTOR 44741875.
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