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  ALGERIA - LoveToKnow Article on ALGERIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
East of Philippeville the mountains recede from the coast, and the rampart of hills reappears.
Algeria was considered as a kind of great military fief, and the officers who ruled there commonly took the side of the native chieftains against the civil population.
Profoundly troubled as Algeria was in the last years of the igth century by the anti-Semitic agitation, which occasioned frequent changes of governors, it appears to-day to have turned aside from sterile political struggles to interest itself exclusively in the economic development of the country.
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 Algerian War of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An important watershed in the War of Independence was the massacre of civilians by the FLN near the town of Philippeville in August 1955.
By September, Bella was in control of Algeria by all but name, and was elected as premier in a one-sided election on 20 September, and was recognised by the United States on September 29.
Algeria was admitted as the 109th member of the United Nations on 8 October 1962.
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 PHILIPPEVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIPPEVILLE
, a seaport of Algeria, chief town of an arrondissement in the department of Constantine, and 5~ m.
Philippeville occupies the site of successive Phoenician and Roman cities.
By the Romans, under whom it attained a high state of prosperity, it was named Rusicada.
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 Algeria Independence France 1954-1962
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.
De Gaulle's political initiatives threatened the FLN with the prospect of losing the support of the growing numbers of Muslims who were tired of the war and had never been more than lukewarm in their commitment to a totally independent Algeria.
In 1958-59 the French army had won military control in Algeria and was the closest it would be to victory.
www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/algeria1954.htm   (1414 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Algeria - Historical Setting | Algerian Information Resource
MODERN-DAY ALGERIA is a leading member state of the Arab Maghrib, the term applied to the western part of Arab North Africa.
For 300 years, beginning in the early sixteenth century, Algeria was a province of the Ottoman Empire under a regency that had Algiers as its capital.
Since independence in 1962, Algeria has sought to create political structures that reflect the unique character of the country and that can cope with the daunting challenges of rebuilding a society and an economy that had been subject to years of trauma and painful transformation.
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 Torture to Prevent Terrorism?
The situation in Philippeville, a city of 21,000 inhabitants, in the sector Nord Constantinois, where the FLN was headquartered, was about to ignite.
The Philippeville police maintained that torture was the most effective method to elicit information from an uncooperative terrorist, who, in the name of an ideal, was willing to shed the blood of the innocent.
In Philippeville the police commissioner was attacked by a commando.
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 WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Algeria - Philippeville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lacoste saw the assembly, which was dominated by colons, as hindering the work of his administration, and he undertook to rule Algeria by decreelaw.
France took a more openly hostile view of President Nasser's material and political assistance to the FLN, which some French analysts believed was the most important element in sustaining continued rebel activity in Algeria.
This attitude was a factor in persuading France to participate in the November 1956 AngloSuez Campaign, meant to topple Nasser from power.
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 SMS Goeben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When war broke out between Austria-Hungary and Serbia on July 28, 1914, the Goeben and Breslau were in the Adriatic.
When Germany declared war on France on 3 August, Souchon was in position off the North African coast and bombarded the French ports of Bône and Philippeville in Algeria.
The pursuit of Goeben and Breslau began on 1 August when, under orders from First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, the British Mediterranean Fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir Berkley Milne, was to shadow the German ships and prevent them from disrupting the transport of French troops from Algeria to France.
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 The Question by Henri Alleg at Questia Online Library
Algeria in Turmoil: A History of the Rebellion
Could his Algerian war have in fact been...supporting the SFIO in 1945 and 1946 for example...the two writers, the Algerian war was certainly the...these two accounts of history, was the fulfilment of...
...SAS, a new unit based at Philippeville, Algeria, commanded by Lt-Col Bill Stirling and...to the command of HQ Squadron in July 1945 but was injured in a Jeep accident and...and Fortress: Architecture and Military History in Malta (1969).
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 FREE In-depth report - Fln - Algeria
After the collapse of the MTLD, Messali Hadj formed the leftist National Algerian Movement (Mouvement National Algérien-- MNA), which advocated a policy of violent revolution and total independence similar to that of the FLN.
The ALN subsequently wiped out the MNA guerrilla operation, and Messali Hadj's movement lost what little influence it had had in Algeria.
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 Mediterranean
Typical was that of a 13-ship convoy bound to Philippeville, Algeria, in January 1943.
END OF NOTE On 19 January, the Wirt was in convoy only six miles from Philippeville when three waves of torpedo-bombers and high-level bombers staged a 70 minute attack.
The Daniel Huger was discharging her load of 6,000 tons of gasoline at Bone, Algeria, on 8 May 1943, when 17 bombers attacked the port.
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 USAAF Chronology, Mediterranean : 1944, Part 1
Air echelon of the 417th Night Fighter Squadron, Twelfth Air Force, transfers from Tafaraoui to La Senia, Algeria with Beaufighters; ground echelon is at Ghisonaccia, Corsica.
Air echelon of the 417th Night Fighter Squadron, Twelfth Air Force (attached to RAF 337 Wing) from Tafaraoui to La Senia, Algeria with Beaufighters; ground echelon is at Ghisonaccia, Corsica.
In Italy, A-36s hit roads and other targets S of Rome, destroying or damaging numerous trucks and bombing the towns of Sezze and Fondi as US ground forces meet strong resistance in their drive toward Cassino; P-47s hit Manopello and railroad facilities at Sulmona; and fighters patrol the Anzio area.
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 AllRefer.com - Algeria - Philippeville | Algerian Information Resource
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Martyrs' monument, Algiers, dedicated to the dead in the War of Independence, 1954-62
Colon deputies were able to delay until 1958 passage of the measure by the National Assembly.
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 untitled art print - Algeria - Philippeville
Hang this Philippeville collectors' print in your school, home or office.
The original pictures were taken in the early 20th-century as a collection of travel sights and landmarks for postcards.
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 Italian Navy, Ondina, Pietro Calvi, Cantore, Morosini, Bolzano, Attendolo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
She reports a U-boat off Philippeville, eastern Algeria on the 15th, but is not heard from again - presumed mined in the Strait of Sicily.
Her last signal is on the 31st December and she is presumed lost on minefields in the approaches to the port.
Attacks off Algeria - Axis attacks continue against Allied ships in Algerian ports and convoys off the coast.
www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsItalianNavy2.htm   (3003 words)

  
 Algeria
1992 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round
1961 Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria
1913 Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957
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 Worldwide Immigration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victoire Marie Alexandrine Cereghino abt 1873 Algeria Unknown Cintas
Dominique CEREGHINO and his wife Antoinette and children moved to Tunisia around 1890.
Pierre abt 1861 Philippeville, Algeria Setif, Algeria Josephine Ottenwalter
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 George Cross Database Recipient   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Date and Place of GC Action: 21st August 1943, Philippeville, Algeria
GC Location/Sale History: Maj AG Kempster's George Cross was sold by Spinks on 28th March 1995 for an expected price of £2,800 - £3,200.
Date and Place of Death: 21st August 1943, Philippeville, Algeria
www.gc-database.co.uk /recipients/KempsterAG.htm   (360 words)

  
 Property listings for Philippeville, , - Houses / homes for sale or for rent - Vacation Rentals - Real estate agents ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 ZOUAVES / ZOUAVE - Old Vintage Antique Postcard Postcards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
WE ALSO LIST IN PARENTHESES THE PRINTER/PUBLISHER OF THE POSTCARD.
- ALGERIA - Constantine : The Oldest Flag of the 3rd Zouaves (Year 1870) (Published by Geiser - Lauffenburger) (Unused Postcard).
- ALGERIA - Philippeville (now Skikda) : The Music Band of the Zouaves Regiment (Published by V. Mattarèse - 16) (Postally Used Postcard).
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