First Battle of Blida
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The First Battle of Blida took place from 22 to 24 July 1830,[1] during the French conquest of Algeria. A French corps consisting of 1,500 men and a squadron of chasseurs faced Algerian popular forces from the Beni Salah and Beni Misra Berber tribes, and from the town of Blida. The battle resulted in a victory for the Algerians.[2]
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- ^ a b Pascal, Adrien; DuCamp, Jules; Brahaut, G N (1850). Histoire de l'armée et de tous les régiments, depuis les premiers temps de la monarchie française... [History of the Army and of All Regiments Since Earliest Times]. 4. François Sicard. Paris: A. Barbier. p. 58. OCLC 1008334451.
- ^ Nāṣir al-Dīn Saʻīdūnī (January 2001). L'Algerois rural à la fin de l'époque ottomane (1791-1830) [Rural Algerians at the End of the Ottoman Epoch (1791-1839)]. Dar al-Gharb al-Islami.
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- (in Arabic) مقاومة مبكرة .. وطويلة ،المتيجة
- (in Arabic) أهم المــعارك والمقاومات الشعبية الجــزائــرية
- (in French) La première résistance populaire contre les Francais etait née à Blida (The First Popular Resistance Against the French Was Born in Blida)
- (in French) Notes historiques sur la Grande Kabylie de 1830 à 1838 (History Notes on Great Kabylie from 1830 to 1838)
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