Algerian residents

Marx leaves Algeria after a short stay

📅 2 May 1882

Marx left Algiers after roughly ten weeks. The surviving notes and letters provide fragments on land, family, and colonial power; they should be read alongside Algerian histories and testimony, not...

General Massu receives police powers during the Battle of Algiers

📅 7 January 1957

French authorities transferred policing powers over Algiers to General Jacques Massu and the 10th Parachute Division. The military campaign used mass arrests, torture, forced disappearance, and...

Britain attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

📅 3 July 1940

British forces attacked French warships anchored at Mers-el-Kébir near Oran, Algeria, after France’s armistice with Germany. More than a thousand French sailors were killed. The port’s North African...