Revolt of Mokrani

The Revolt of Mokrani , occurred in 1871 in Algeria, is the most important insurrection against the French colonial capacity since the beginning of the Conquête of Algeria in 1830. It is carried out by the sheik Mohamed El Mokrani and of the sheik Haddad, chief of the brotherhood of the Rahmaniya, in Kabylie.

History

In 1870, notable Algerian, Mohamed El Mokrani, is retrogressed under Bachagha to have supported the revolt of the Sheik Bouaquaz, a close relation of his father, in 1864 - 1865. El Mokrani, for stage the food shortage which touches the campaigns then, invests its personal fortune and borrows. The eagerness of its creditors and the pressure of the authorities oblige it to mortgage its goods. This, added to the decree Crémieux of the October 24th 1870, reinforces its feeling of injustice and the idea of a revolution seems to him the only solution. It starts thus the March 16th 1871 the most important insurrection and the large last revolts Algérie during the French occupation.

The movement raises 250 tribes, nearly one the third of the Algerian population. The majority of the cities and the villages of Kabylie and the Top-Plates are plundered. The insurrectionists are constrained with rendering after the attack of Kabylie by the French. They are stopped with the Alma the April 22nd 1871, and the May 5th the bachaga El Mokrani is killed close to the Soufflat wadi. The French troops (twenty columns) go on Tizi-Ouzou, Dellys and Draâ El Mizan. The sheik Haddad and his sons go the July 13rd, after the battle of Icheriden. The insurrection does not end that after the capture of Bou-Mezrag, the January 20th 1872.

See too

History of Algeria

French Colonialism

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