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In 1827, an argument between Hussein Dey, the ruler of the Regency of Algiers, and the French consul escalated into a blockade, following which the July Monarchy of France invaded and quickly seized Algiers in 1830, and seized other coastal communities.
By 1841 French forces had taken most of the Emir’s strongholds. The Duke of Aumale took Abdelkader’s Smala in May 1843, and in August 1844 the Emir’s main support, the Sultan of Morocco’s army, was defeated by Bugeaud and his men at the battle of Isly.
The invasion of Algiers began on 5 July 1830 with a naval bombardment by a fleet under Admiral Duperré and a landing by troops under Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisne, comte de Bourmont. The French quickly defeated the troops of Hussein Dey, the Deylikal ruler, but native resistance was widespread.
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- Algiers, Deylik of Algiers
Oct 10, 2005 · In July 1830 a French expeditionary force conquered the city of Algiers and by 1847, almost all of the territory of what is now Algeria north of the Sahara had been subdued. The conquest brought to an end nearly 400 years of Ottoman rule and inaugurated what was to be a French colony for over 130 years.
WHEN THE FRENCH invaded the Ottoman regency of Algiers in the summer of 1830, they took the first step in a process of conquest and colonization that dominated France’s modern imperial history and that has shaped French political culture to this day.
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Taking the French invasion of Algiers in 1830 as a case in point, this article shows how the Congress system's shared discourses of security and threat perceptions as well as its common practices of concerted diplomacy fostered European imperialism in North Africa.
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ALMOST ANY ACCOUNT of the French conquest of Algeria begins with the July Revolution of 1830. According to historians of both French politics and North African colonialism, the invasion of the then–Ottoman regency was a by-product of the Bourbon Restoration’s final collapse.
