Bugead's victory allowed the arrival of the colonists known as pied-noirs, who later stubbornly resisted its independence movement, the FLN.
Suppressing the Kabylian uprising of Muhammad al-Muqrani was the last stage in the conquest of this colony, which began forty years earlier with the surrender of the janissaries defending its capital against naval invasion. While the towns of the Mitidja plain fell quickly, treaties devised by Clauzel and Desmichels fell apart, and war resumed in 1839 between the forces of Abd-el-Kader, leader of a Sufi brotherhood, and General Bugeaud's Foreign legionnaires.  Bugead's victory allowed the arrival of the colonists known as pied-noirs, who later stubbornly resisted its independence movement, the FLN. FTP, name this Mediterranean colony ruled by the French until it was granted independence in 1962 after ten years of civil war.
Suppressing the Kabylian uprising of Muhammad al-Muqrani was the last stage in the conquest of this colony, which began forty years earlier with the surrender of the janissaries defending its capital against naval invasion.
Algeria