A land law facilitates division and transfer of collective property

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...

French forces captured Boumezrag el-Mokrani, a leading organiser of the 1871 resistance, after months of pursuit. The revolt had been defeated militarily, but the capture marked the continuation of...

The Warnier Law reorganised land tenure by imposing French legal categories and facilitating individual transactions. It weakened collective forms of landholding and increased the vulnerability of...

The transport ship La Loire left Brest carrying Algerian political deportees detained after the Mokrani uprising. Deportation removed people from their families and homeland and extended colonial...

The law of 28 June 1881 formalised a special administrative and penal regime for Algerians classified as “indigènes.” It enabled punishment through administrative authority and offences that did not...

The law of 27 June 1888 extended for two years the exceptional regime established in 1881. Repeated renewal shows that legal inequality was maintained through ordinary legislative procedures, rather...

Residents of the Righa community rose at Margueritte amid land loss, settler expansion, and colonial administrative pressure. French authorities framed the revolt as a threat to order and responded...

The trial of Algerians accused after the Margueritte uprising opened in Montpellier. The prosecution moved resistance from the colony into a French courtroom, where colonial categories and the unequal...

A decree introduced a system of military recruitment for Algerian Muslims, with annual selection and partial conscription. It responded to French military manpower needs while extending obligations to...

A decree provided that some Algerian men who completed military service with good conduct would no longer be subject to the indigénat’s special jurisdiction. The measure linked relief from...