Prestige, religion and trade are the main reasons that lead France to embark on the conquest of this land under Ottoman domination.
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IHistory has remembered that France made its entry into Algeria to the sound of the “March” of Moses, by Rossini. Tribute perhaps to the crossing of a sea that was not dead by a people who felt elected. We are on July 5, 1830, the news of the capture of Algiers, conveyed by steamboat to Marseilles, will arrive in Paris on the 9th. We do not know, of course, that we are there for more than one hundred and thirty years.
It all started so easily. The French troops, 40,000 men, landed quietly in mid-June on the peninsula of Sidi Ferruch (Sidi Fredj), an unfortified area located 20 kilometers west of Algiers. A place spotted in 1808 by Commander Boutin sent on reconnaissance by Napoleon – who was already considering an intervention after the seizure by the Dey of Algiers of what…
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