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The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or the Algerian Revolution (Arabic: الثورة الجزائرية Ath-Thawra Al-Jazā’iriyya; French: Guerre d'Algérie, "Algerian War") was a war between France and the Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, the use of torture on both sides, and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army. The conflict was also a civil war between loyalist Algerians who believed in a French Algeria and their insurrectionist Algerian Muslim counterparts.[5] Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front (FLN) on November 1, 1954, during the Toussaint Rouge ("Red All Saints' Day"), the conflict shook the foundations of the French Fourth Republic (1946–58) and led to its eventual collapse.
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Algerian War | ||||||||
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Belligerents | ||||||||
FLN (ALN) MNA PCA |
French Fourth Republic (1954–1958) French Fifth Republic (1958–1962) |
FAF (1960–61) OAS (1961–62) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
Saadi Yacef Mustapha Benboulaïd† Ferhat Abbas Houari Boumedienne Hocine Aït Ahmed Ahmed Ben Bella Krim Belkacem Frantz Fanon Larbi Ben M'Hidi† Rabah Bitat Mohamed Boudiaf Ali La Pointe |
Paul Cherrière (1954–55) Henri Lorillot (1955–56) Raoul Salan (1956–58) Maurice Challe (1958–60) Jean Crepin (1960–61) Fernand Gambiez (1961) |
Pierre Lagaillarde Raoul Salan Edmond Jouhaud Jean-Jacques Susini Said Boualam Paul Aussaresses | ||||||
Strength | ||||||||
40,000 |
670,000[1] 90,000 Harki | 3,000 (OAS) | ||||||
Casualties and losses | ||||||||
153,000 dead[2][3] unknown number of wounded |
25,600 dead 65,000 wounded |
100 dead (OAS) 2,000 jailed (OAS) | ||||||
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