Category: Algeria

Europe 1830

French invasion of Algeria

Following three years of deteriorating...

Europe 1844

Franco-Moroccan War

By 1844, the French had consolidated their...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1903

Pacification of Northern Nigeria

The 1899 Anglo-French agreement assigned...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1905

Maji Maji Rebellion

In 1905 revolt broke out in German East Africa...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1916

East African Campaign

By March 1916 the Allies had conquered all of...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1929

Trans-African Routes

The 1920s saw a consolidation of the European...

Europe 1942

El Alamein and Operation Torch

In November, the tide turned in the Western...

Europe 1942

Battle of Stalingrad

A week after their defeats in Africa, Germany...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1942

Three French Empires

In November 1942 the Allies landed in Vichy...

Europe 1942

Failure of Winter Storm

Convinced that the Sixth Army could still be...

the Arctic 1942

Arctic Convoys

In early 1942, Germany moved air and naval...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1943

French Committee of National Liberation

The Free French coexisted with the High...

North America 1944

America in World War II

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Europe 1955

Warsaw Pact

After the death of Stalin in 1953, a thaw in...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1956

Independence of Sudan

In 1953 Egyptian revolutionaries deposed the...