A French decree formalised confiscation of land from Algerian communities and insurgents after the 1871 uprising. Confiscations, fines, displacement, and settlement policy converted military defeat into a longer transfer of resources and territory to colonial control. The decree belongs to a broader legal regime that used collective punishment to dispossess communities. Exact land totals and affected groups vary across sources and administrative categories, so no single figure is asserted here.
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French land confiscations after the 1871 uprising helped restore all land to the communities from whom it had been taken.
Confiscation transferred land away from Algerian communities and supported settler expansion.