Algerian independence fighters

From 1954 to 1962, France was embroiled in a crisis which deepened with every passing day.

Algerian independence fighters

Algeria wanted independence and was fighting tooth and nail to gain it from the French. From organized terror attacks to full scale-war, mass incarcerations, the fall of the Fourth Republic, and threats from the French within France by pro-imperial forces, the war was indeed complicated, violent, and difficult to resolve.

Whatever the outcome, France was set to lose.

The Algerian War of Independence was a nail in the coffin for imperialism, the French Empire, and added to the long list of colonial uprisings against European rulers.

Background to the Algerian War of Independence

The conquest of Algeria was a decades-long process that started in 1830 and lasted right up until the 20th century.

It was a particularly brutal war which saw France adopt a scorched-earth policy in its bid to conquer the native Algerians. Massacres a