 The term also came to include civilian indigenous Algerians who supported a French Algeria.According to French government figures, there were 236,000 Algerian Muslims serving in the French Army in 1962 (four times more than in the FLN), either in regular units (Spahis and Tirailleurs) or as irregulars (harkis and moghaznis).Some estimates suggest that, with their families, the indigenous Muslim loyalists may have numbered as many as 1 million.