Enrolled in a class that features a book by Frantz Fanon and that movie that was filmed about the French trying to retain control and the eventual results, I got to wondering why France didn't at least try to retain a portion of Algeria.
Something like 13% of Algeria's population was French. Given the example of the UK retaining Northern Ireland, and Spain Ceuta and Melilla, why didn't France, though having lost the political will to fight the Algerian insurgency any longer, try to retain at least a portion of Algeria, such as Oran, which was about half European?
Something like 13% of Algeria's population was French. Given the example of the UK retaining Northern Ireland, and Spain Ceuta and Melilla, why didn't France, though having lost the political will to fight the Algerian insurgency any longer, try to retain at least a portion of Algeria, such as Oran, which was about half European?
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