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  French rule in Algeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A distinction soon developed between the grands colons (great colonists) at one end of the scale, often self-made men who had accumulated large estates or built successful businesses, and the petits blancs (little whites), smallholders and workers at the other end, whose lot was often not much better than that of their Muslim counterparts.
The Algerian government brought his remains back to Algeria to be interred with much ceremony on July 5, 1966, the fourth anniversary of independence and the 136th anniversary of the French conquest.
The leader of the colon delegation, Auguste Warnier, succeeded during the 1870s and 1880s in modifying or introducing legislation to facilitate the private transfer of land to settlers and continue the Algerian state's appropriation of land from the local population and distribution to settlers.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nationalism and resistance in Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Algeria's Islamic reform movement took inspiration from Egyptian reformers Muhammad Abduh and Muhammad Rashid Rida and stressed the Arab and Islamic roots of the country.
The colons also had powerful allies in the French National Assembly, the bureaucracy, the armed forces, and the business community, and were strengthened in their resistance by their almost total control of the Algerian administration and police.
Colon administrators and their supporters threw procedural obstacles in the path of the legislation, and the government gave it only lukewarm support, resulting in its ultimate failure.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: French rule in Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Attempts to implement even the most modest reforms were blocked or delayed by the local administration in Algeria, dominated by colons, and by colon representatives in the National Assembly, to which each of the three départements sent six deputies and three senators.
Recurrent cabinet crises focused attention on the inherent instability of the French Fourth Republic and increased the misgivings of the army and of the colons that the security of Algeria was being undermined by party politics.
Algeria was admitted as the 109th member of the United Nations on 8 October 1962.
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 Algeria Independence France 1954-1962
Colon vigilante units, whose unauthorized activities were conducted with the passive cooperation of police authorities, carried out ratonnades (literally, rat-hunts; synonymous with Arab-killings) against suspected FLN members of the Muslim community.
The colons demanded the proclamation of a state of emergency, the proscription of all groups advocating separation from France, and the imposition of capital punishment for politically motivated crimes.
An important watershed in the War of Independence was the massacre of civilians by the FLN near the town of Philippeville in August 1955.
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 Algerian War of Independence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Colon vigilante units whose unauthorized activities were conducted the passive cooperation of police authorities carried ratonnades (literally rat-hunts; synonymous with Arab-killings) against FLN members of the Muslim community.
The colons demanded the proclamation of a state emergency the proscription of all groups advocating from France and the imposition of capital for politically motivated crimes.
Colon deputies were able to delay until passage of the measure by the National Assembly of France.
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 French rule in Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A distinction soon developed between the grands colons (great colonists) at one end of the scale, oftenself-made men who had accumulated large estates or built successful businesses, and the petits blancs (little whites),smallholders and workers at the other end, whose lot was often not much better than that of their Muslim counterparts.
The Algerian government brought his remains back to Algeria to be interred with much ceremony on July 5, 1966, the fourth anniversary of independence andthe 136th anniversary of the French conquest.
Shortly after Louis Philippe's constitutional monarchy was overthrown in the revolution of 1848, the new government of the Second Republic ended Algeria's status as a colony and declared the occupied lands anintegral part of France.
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 FREE In-depth report - De Gaulle - Algeria
On his June 4 trip to Algeria, de Gaulle calculatedly made an ambiguous and broad emotional appeal to all the inhabitants, declaring "Je vous ai compris" (I have understood you).
De Gaulle raised the hopes of colons and the professional military, disaffected by the indecisiveness of previous governments, with his exclamation of "Vive Algérie française" (long live French Algeria) to cheering crowds in Mostaganem.
The failure of the colon uprising and the loss of many ultra leaders who were imprisoned or transferred to other areas did not deter the militant colons.
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 French rule in algeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Backing the French war effort were the colons, the Greek, Italian and French descended settlers who felt a takeover by the colony's Moslem majority would lead to a total loss of their farms and livelihood.
The map depicts the northern third of Algeria, being that the remainder is very sparsely populated desert, divided up into districts with spaces for underground, available, patroling, or moved units.
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 THE NEWS BLOG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He returned to Algeria to organize urban workers and peasant farmers and in 1937 founded the Party of the Algerian People (Parti du Peuple Algérien--PPA) to mobilize the Algerian working class at home and in France to improve its situation through political action.
The colons also had powerful allies in the National Assembly, the bureaucracy, the armed forces, and the business community, and were strengthened in their resistance by their almost total control of the Algerian administration and police.
Upon his release from five-year house arrest, Messali Hadj returned to Algeria and formed the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertés Démocratiques--MTLD), which quickly drew supporters from a broad cross-section of society.
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 FREE In-depth report - Colonization And Military Control - Algeria
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The Government of Western Sahara operates not from its own capital city, L’ayoun, but from a small patch of desert over the border in Algeria.
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