Mokrani Revolt
The Mokrani Revolt (Arabic: مقاومة الشيخ المقراني, lit. 'Resistance of Cheikh El-Mokrani'; Berber languages: Unfaq urrumi, lit. 'French insurrection') was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the conquest in 1830.
| Mokrani Revolt | |||||||
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| Part of French conquest of Algeria | |||||||
Tribes under the Mokrani revolt. Source : Djilali Sari, L'insurrection de 1871, SNED, Alger, 1972, p.29. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Algerian rebels: Kingdom of Ait Abbas Sultanate of Tuggurt Algerian Zawiyas Algerian peasantry |
France: France Native auxiliaries | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Cheikh Mokrani † Boumezrag Mokrani Cheikh El Haddad Soliman IV Cheikh Boumerdassi Cheikh Boushaki Cheikh Zamoum |
Louis Henri Léon Lallemand Alexandre Fourchault Théodore Périgot | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| 100,000 Kabyle cavalry, and 100,000 other fighters | Army of Africa (86,000 men) plus native auxiliaries | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| ≈ 2000 dead | 2,686 dead | ||||||
The revolt broke out on March 16, 1871, with the uprising of more than 250 tribes, around a third of the population of the country. It was led by the Kabyles of the Biban mountains commanded by Cheikh Mokrani and his brother Bou-Mezrag el-Mokrani, as well as Cheikh El Haddad, head of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order.
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