Why was Algeria a part of France and not a colony? (Short Animated Documentary)

When most countries conquer overseas lands they keep them as colonies. Yet in the case of Algeria, France made it a part of France itself in the same way that Paris or Corsica were. So why did France do this and how did a part of France itself manage to become independent? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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[@peaches5878]

I think that you missed one important event, France asked algerian muslims to help her in WWII in exchange for their rights and for freedom when the West won WWII and on 8th Mai 1945 Algerians came out to celebrate and at the same time lifted banners to celebrate them having rights and freedom like France promised, except France turned against them and killed 45000 Algerian in a massive genocide, this was the turning point for Algerians who chose to fight France instead of trying to negotiate with them.

[@imenetouil272]

Thank you for pointing it out!

[@malonidave130]

sound like Israel and uae and saoudi arabia soon

[@blueshirt26]

@@malonidave130 Palestine will continue to fight for independence 🇵🇸✌🏻

[@sayin17mth]

I am Algerian. This is true. I hate France. I am an Arab Berber

[@alal039]

@@malonidave130 Saudi Arabia was never colonized, why do you think these cowards can do it? We are not Algeria.

[@-socialcredit]

I thought it was because France had enough French people and 1% bureaucrats in the Algiers state which was enough to make a colonial province into a state for 100 colonial power. Thanks for the extra info

[@prod.bexerk8997]

u play europa versailles

[@AHappyCub]

@@prod.bexerk8997 He's talking about Victoria 2, completely outdated and garbage by today's standards made by the same company as EU4

[@yeatnumber1Dmuncher]

@UCWfaL-Prf2mwAtPwPFnEBYw the same one that made the hit game Among us

[@g.zoltan]

@@AHappyCub "Garbage by today's standards" well, we'll see what today's standards are like with Vicky3.

[@AHappyCub]

@@g.zoltan I sure fucking hope Vic3 going to be a good game

[@biddouda3644]

I know that this is a very short summary of more than a century of history, however, there is an inescapable fact to talk about this story, the terrible massacres of May 8, 1945 causing the death of more than 45,000 Algerians like retaliation for the demonstrations of Algerians who claim an independence promised at the end of the world war, it is the event which made the Algerians understand that independence must be obtained only by arms after decades of peaceful political claims . this video is very precious, because it explains that algeria was part of france and was not a simple colony, it is also a reason why independence was so violent and recent as a live ablation for French leaders

[@Dreaming_Aya]

This! I literally live in a neighborhood called 8 May 1945, the atrocities we lived through cannot be forgotten

[@LanguedocProvenceGascogneMIDI]

The problem of Algeria is that France tried to make it a real colony of settlement, as in America (in Louisiana and in Quebec): that is why the natives in Algeria did not have rights civics, the French government hoped that the settlers from France would simply demographically supplant the natives in Algeria, similar to what happened in America (Quebec and Louisiana), where the French demographically supplanted the native Americans. At the independence, it was very complicated to repatriate the many French people who had been established in Algeria for several generations! can you imagine if the French government had to repatriate all the French settlers from Louisiana to France when this territory was sold to the USA? that's why Algeria is different from Morocco, Tunisia or Indochina: they just were colonies politically subject to the French Empire, few French in these countries. But the objective was to populate Algeria with French people to make Algeria a real French territory, not just a colony. it worked for Quebec or Louisiana (except that these two territories colonized by French were lost by France), but it failed for Algeria: the natives acquired their independence and sent the French back to France.

[@nein236]

The same thing is now happening to western Europe, especially france. Give it a few generations, the frenchmen wont be anymore.

[@PowerZordan]

@@nein236 I know math is hard when you're racist, but come on, we both know how ludicrous this statement is

[@nein236]

@@PowerZordan Come again? Im german, and in my country in 90-120 years the german will 100 percent be the minority. I mean the percentage of germans will be under 50 percent. Not racist, just facts.

[@abdelhalim5967]

keyward: culture & islam

[@zarlg]

No the goal was also for Algerians to assimilate, they had access to citizenship.

[@Longshanks1690]

“He was in a bit of trouble at home so to divert attention away, he ordered an invasion of the region.” Hey, I’ve seen this one before, it’s a classic!

[@makutas-v261]

Hmm.. I wonder who that reminds me of now...

[@SamAronow]

"Now, if you ever find yourself the brutal military leader of a struggling South American country and you start getting into hot water, here is a bit of advice that has been tried and tested throughout the centuries: Start a war to distract everyone from their misery!"

[@JakeandElwoodBlues]

Biden and Ukraine.

[@anyways4438]

The invasions of Falklands, the invasion of Crimea by Putin are the examples that come to mind

[@BOZ_11]

Thatcher? Falklands?

[@FastTquick]

I’d love to know how Guiana and Polynesia remained French territories as a follow up to this video.

[@rimacalid6557]

Rigged voting

[@maskr5520]

@@rimacalid6557 not at all, actually all the referendums have been favorable to France and not rigged, the closest to independence was in New Caledonia, but now the third vote has ended and the island choose to remain part of France ( there was a boycott from the separatists)

[@gabrielr3390]

@@maskr5520 Well from what I looked through they like you said had 3 votes on the subject. With them loosing the first 2 and maybe seeing the writing on the wall decided to boycott the last one as to delegitimise it perhaps. Regardless the voting was quite close

[@Rato_Arabe]

from what i heard, the guianese saw that independence didn't do much better to their ex british and dutch neighboors so they decided it was better to just remain a formal part of france.

[@cebonvieuxjack]

@@maskr5520 I mean, yes it wasn't rigged, but you could question its legitimacy : the Kanaks, aka the indigenous population of New Caledonia now only count for 40% of the territory's population. Since the separatists movement mostly comes from that fraction of the population, on the question "would you like to remain as France" the option "No" is unlikely to be majoritarian. That's why our government gave them three chances, because they knew it wasn't happening, that's also why the separatists kanak boycotted the last one). But tbf, they are most likely better off remaining in France, since they're already an autonomous part of the country but get to keep the benefits, while their situation after their independence is more unclear. I believe we still need to make it right with the Kanaks, since they didn't profit as much of the economic boom of the island in the 1970's. We can't simply declare the territory where the Kanaks live as independent since it wouldn't be favorable at all to them, yet if only the kanak wish to be free we can't just sent back the majority of the island's inhabitants screw themselves. It's a tough situation

[@husaink]

Here in the all Arab region, Algeria has a very infamous title. We call her "The Country of a Million Martyrs". Of course it was not mentioned here.

[@LD-Orbs]

It was a truly nasty war.

[@guillaumehervouet9293]

The subject is not about the war. Read the title.

[@zimriel]

@@guillaumehervouet9293 it's not about the war but there exist youtubes about that war. i don't know if the lighthearted nature of this channel is fit for the Algerian war which, yes, was nasty. I used to live in Algeria and my family knew some Algerian Jews, they all had to leave or get killed. And then the Algerians started killing Kabylie in 1980 and in the 1990s they were killing each other. A sad place, est Algerie, et je prie pour que nous ayons la paix

[@Losangelesharvey]

"of course" - your problem being what?

[@TheDiamondF]

​@@Losangelesharveypeople in the world lean towards france denying that fact so its never given attention to when this subject is on the table

[@Kanmeii]

Correction: Spain treated it's territories as an integral part of the country, hence their names ''Viceroyalties'' and ''Captaincies''. The people in the Western Sahara (for example) when it was a Spanish province had spanish passport and it was another province of the country. Same as French Algeria and the rest of Spanish provinces and General Captaincies.

[@Danisiah1]

Sí y no, después de la pérdida de América continental todo lo demás fueron tratados como colonias. Por eso no hubo un virreinato caribeño o siquiera una provincia en Filipinas; seguía ese mismo estamento de “Capitanías Generales” que en la Península desaparecieron con las guerras carlistas. Lo mismo en Hispanoáfrica, a todos estos países 🇨🇺🇵🇭🇬🇶🇵🇷🇪🇭 les llegó la autonomía/provincialización demasiado tarde. Con el remanente del primer imperio los yankees ya asolaban, con Guinea la ONU metió presión y el Sáhara fue una vil traición de Juan Carlos para con Kissinger

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Locals in Spanish Sahara didn't have Spanish citizenship, a Arabs kept the blacks slaves because Spanish laws didn't affect them since they are just subjects.

[@Kanmeii]

@@gostavoadolfos2023 ''From 1958, until the Spanish withdrawal in 1975, all Sahrawis born in what the Franco regime called “the autonomous region of Spain,” had the right to claim Spanish nationality. Spain conferred nationality on at least 32,000 Sahrawis during the late 1950s.'' Google is there brother

[@southernemperor7794]

A small mistake: Spanish Colonies (maybe up until some years before Cuba got it's independece) were (just like Algeria to france) integral part of Spain, it was a different colonial system to that of Britain in which colonies weren't recognized as part of the UK. Portugal's colonial system was very similar (to not say identical) to that of Spain, and both of those systems were similar to the Roman form of Colonization

[@Erich_C]

Yes, true.

[@blackblack6032]

Its the worst system

[@gustavosanches3454]

@@blackblack6032 its a colonial system, they all suck equally.

[@Karthagast]

@@gustavosanches3454 Nope. The British system sucks the most.

[@Dragoncam13]

@@gustavosanches3454 Portugal did it the best tbh

[@kokojambo4944]

Even at my university in England animosity between French and Algerian students was pretty damn high. Which was made worse by the ironic fact most Algerians could speak French and insult the French students XD.

[@xenotypos]

Honestly, was the animosity mutual or was it just Algerian students insulting French students ?

[@freddieallen7842]

Those Algerian students must have had a field day; able to insult the French students in their own language yet the majority of other students wouldn't fully understand them

[@rohankishibe8259]

@@xenotypos you assumed algerians started it??

[@AekAmir]

@@xenotypos The French are usually perfect people! They are very humble and modest. Especially when it comes to people from former colonies. The whole world knows this. They definitely do not use ironic and sarcastic tone when they speak about other cultures. So I am sure there was no mutual Animosity.

[@king-games123]

@@AekAmir doubt

[@akaihidan4371]

Damn, as an Algerian it’s kind of insane to stumble upon a video in English explaining our history. Really happy about it. Thanks!

[@medsalim8731]

agree, he did a great job, tho he didn't really get into details about how monstreous the French colony was, some people have no clue that we lost well over 1.5 million martyr. The French colony was in fact a crime against humanity. who could've known that several decades later the French President comes to Algeria to beg for oil and gas 😂😂😂😂 denia dowara .

[@Motasim11]

@@medsalim8731 like for real😂😂 France is now on their knees for oil. Viva l’algerie 🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@Assia131]

Same

[@arabiano16]

read books brother ... also Algerian

[@scrollingtillmidnight7330]

For me, it's nice to see fellow Algerians in the comment section of a history video fir once instead of a bello song

[@jimos4ever322]

I like how you made the administrative sectors look like the french flag

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

Indeed, that was clever! Even the shades of blue, white, and red are the same!

[@-socialcredit]

1:42 gotta love how you made the administrative regions into a reference into the recent French flag change. Nice detail

[@Packers-bm6jy]

I know bro that legend

[@MomMom4Cubs]

Ikr!

[@o_s_byron2319]

Why did they change the blue shade anyway?

[@arya6085]

@@o_s_byron2319 reference to how the french flag was recently changed to a darker blue

[@o_s_byron2319]

@@arya6085 yeah and i'm asking why?

[@durthacht]

Interesting. Somewhat similar to Ireland in that both Algeria and Ireland were once as a series of colonies formed from conquered territory, then become at least nominally an integral part of the colonising country, dominated by a privileged elite while the mass of the population were excluded largely on religion, and the link to the colonising power was finally broken by a long and horrible war. Great video.

[@MrMEST]

Just watched another video on the subject and a guy made the same comparison between Ireland and Algeria in a comment. You described it better though.

[@Aresydatch]

🇩🇿🇮🇪🇵🇸❤❤❤

[@mlc4495]

The Pied Noirs managed to hold out in Ireland however and maintained a separate enclave in the form of Northern Ireland to this day.

[@nafrost2787]

@@Aresydatch Why did you put the flag of the kingdom of hejaz?

[@blackhorseteck8381]

That's why Algeria sided publicly with the IRA and even funded some of their activities. Only oppressed people can understand your desire for freedom.

[@awesomeggaming6718]

1:16 napoleon III looking side to side is a great detail foreshadowing what he was about to do to the new republic

[@srdragan317]

Thanks for ur work

[@whatshouldidowithmychannel]

"The problem was that bullets don't care about your pride." I love the hilariously good humor on this channel.

[@ailo4x4]

and "No Rosbifs!" ;-)

[@yogurtclosetok]

"We don't." Bullet

[@nikolasmaes99]

they would just assimilate over time.. they did not lol

[@haninditabudhi6574]

Heard that the legend James Bizzenete is in charge of the animation section! 😁

[@itsblitz4437]

That is so true to life, and big lesson to any country that wants to occupied entirely a foreign peoples.

[@paleoph6168]

0:58 Vietnam: the trees speak Vietnamese Algeria: the clouds speak Algerian

[@someoneyeah7683]

*The mountains speak Arabic/Berber

[@Algerreichen]

*The clouds speak arabic in an algerian accent

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

More like sand speaks Algerian

[@corey2232]

Don't they mostly speak French in Algeria?

[@Algerreichen]

@@corey2232 french and arabic mostly, in some regions in the south they speak berber

[@knowledge719]

I love your content❤

[@anas.algabry]

thank you for the efforts

[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

French Guyana is another part of France often mistakenly called a colony. It is also the reason longest French border is with Brazil.

[@charlesdegaulle6663]

It's not a colony it's a department

[@rimacalid6557]

That is sad

[@rosiefay7283]

France calls it part of France, but realistically it's a colony.

[@Twasforthevine]

@@rosiefay7283 nope People there feel very french because at that point you could say the Savoie is a colonny

[@matthewbrotman2907]

And the largest national park in the EU is in South America.

[@gillesdupouy8357]

I think it's important to add that what made Algeria special among French colonies was the high number of European settlers : by the time the war started in the 1950s there were about one million French and Europeans living there, and many were not willing to leave or give the millions of Muslim Algerians equal citizenship. Almost all of them fled after the end of the was in 1963 and were relocated to Metropolitan France, but they suffered harsh treatment from "native" French people

[@El9endilo]

@@littleface7060 the revolution started in 1954 not 1962, 1962 was the official date of independence

[@nakedsnake6076]

also good to note that these europeans that settled in algeria were from criminal backgrounds thats why they were badly recieved when they went back to france,imagine being a criminal in france,go to algeria and automatically given land stolen from algerians with basicaly slaves to serve your lands

[@amiragrn1303]

Thank's it's true what you tell us

[@comicbutserious263]

We actually offered citizenship status to the muslims algerians twice.

[@El9endilo]

@@comicbutserious263 in exchange for them to stop being muslim and arab fair offer right?

[@beatballmix4835]

Lovely video, Thanks

[@behnasokba2265]

Enjoyed watching

[@Katyusha666]

2:40 My grandparents always chuckled at this aspect of French rule: they were indoctrinated in school about the greatness of the French Revolution, of the glory of combating tyranny, and the nobility of the promotion of human rights and dignity. Somehow the French didn't realize how terribly this would backfire...

[@gaspardbonnehon8758]

A lot of the French did see the contradiction between the ideals of the Revolution and the colonization, and actively campaigned against it, before and during the colonization itself. Monetary interests just won, as they sadly often do

[@sabrina1380m]

@@gaspardbonnehon8758 absolutely true , even the treatment of colonial subjects was always denounced by the metropolitan intellectuals who were favorable to colonialism It's quite nuanced when it comes to the French empire, both extremes existed

[@Katyusha666]

@@gaspardbonnehon8758 Unfortunately the nuances of this conflict have been lost on all sides: French society at large seems to think that everything was fine and dandy (which is usually not the state of affairs when people revolt) and Algerian society has all but been brainwashed into accepting the official fictional FLN narrative that was concocted by the military clique (Clan Oujda) which took power after 1962.

[@tylersmith3139]

@@Katyusha666 What Narrative? The French slaughtered them instead of letting them have independence. They commited several atrocities.

[@brianwashedhunter1150]

@Nogent There was no French citizens in Algeria Thier were only invaders and freedom fighters Unlike french people who surrendered to Germany like a Blt¢h Algerian fought for 150 years Whatever the french deserved it Do you know what the french did just after WW2 and the genocide they did to Algerians Note that Algerians are 99% Muslims so it was east to distinct who from who And no one agree that France created Algeria That's some french BS Check history man WTF

[@TheFawz]

Would love to see more history content that covers Algeria, lots of interesting but uncovered aspects

[@aiwwakk7152]

Respect to Algerians from the Islamic Republic of Iran. 🇮🇷❤️🤝❤️🇩🇿

[@external4997]

@@aiwwakk7152 respect to Iranians and Algerians from Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦♥️🤝♥️🇮🇷♥️🤝🇩🇿

[@aiwwakk7152]

@@external4997 🇮🇷🤝🇧🇦

[@planteruines5619]

But you have already see all of their history

[@Retaliatixn]

Thank you all. Love from an Algerian. 🇩🇿

[@lalekgaming8191]

Great video! I'm Algerian and I always asked myself this question. just a note, you should have mentioned the massacres of may 8th 1945 (a major reason of the war of independance) and in 1947 only a small part of Algerians were given rights with strict conditions, anyways great video.

[@nico5173]

And also the massacre of Oran the 5 July 1962 , the peace was signed already since 3 months. And they have killed in horrible way so many French civil.

[@claromale]

11 12 13 Algérie Française

[@ahmedsalah-uv6up]

Yes, he did not mention the number of innocents killed by the despicable, bloody state of France

[@claromale]

@@ahmedsalah-uv6up Pleure. Car le FLN a aussi fait son lot de massacres.

[@r.a1301]

@@nico5173 deserved after the French killed even more Algerians in 1945

[@cedeno7471]

0:31 Are you sure the ottoman algeria map is accurate and correct ? what was your source ?

[@basedkaiser5352]

You made it seem like De Gaulle reluctantly gave Algeria its independence, but the truth is that he wanted to let go of Algeria which made him quite unpopular with the military (some, the majority of the Army was still on his side), the OAS (Secret Organization of the Army) even tried to oof him and some generals attempted a putsch. It was a bitter pill to swallow at the time but this led to an economic boom in France.

[@sabrina1380m]

His point is that France deployed great means to keep their hold on Algeria, other circumstances pushed degaulle to give independence

[@rowanwild8445]

Good point. De Gaulle didn’t want to keep Algeria because he knew that Muslims there couldn’t be assimilated as French, so it would have been a demographic disaster

[@Cyricist001]

@@rowanwild8445 Instead, the French brought the Muslims over into France because they can be assimilated there better?

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@Cyricist001 As long as you're smart in assimilation; it usually works well in your own territory, yes. The US doesn't have an issue with Muslim assimilation and are among the most progressive Muslims in the world.

[@ryanmarlin2974]

@@stephenjenkins7971 I'm an "American" Muslim and I can assure you I view myself as anything but American.

[@LedosKell]

The cloud guerrilla has just become one of my favorite moments on this channel. Got a minute of laughter out of me from that.

[@finnishyank7413]

I'm glad I'm not the only one, had to rewind and see it again.

[@fadia7446]

It was almost a reality there where many resistants back in the 18.. who invert the horse shoe so that french army think that they left the region when in fact they where near and set ready for artillery ambush. one of the most famous battles who seen this tactic is Battle of Macta abushed from a muddy river

[@femaleswolf]

I rewinded too!

[@writerconsidered]

Always take the high ground. lolololololol

[@Alex88148]

Really took Guerrilla Warfare to new heights

[@ilyasaintomar3071]

Good effort but was it hard to check your maps at 0:32 ? Don't you think it went too far west in the deep heart of Moroccan atlas mountains by any chance ?

[@ParisCycling]

I'm French and I was only taught about the last Charles de Gaulle bit. Weird, right? I had no idea that they only gave French citizenship to French and Jewish colons and not to the locals. Now I kinda understand why Pieds Noirs have had such a special treatment after that. I'd love to learn about the Algerians point of view, how history is taught at their schools. But I suppose now the French have a close holiday spot were a part of the population speak their language.

[@hml25]

Alors çe qu'on nous a appris c'est que les conditions de vie des algériens étaient horribles par exemple qu'ils devaient accépté l'identité française et chrétienne reniant la leurs ou qu'ils seraient considéré comme indigénes si il n'accepté pas la nationalité francaise qu'il n'avait pas droit a l'école avant le début du 20éme siécle qu'une grande partie des jeune hommes de l'époque ont combattu pour la france a la 2éme guerre mondiale qu'il avaient essayé de récupérer les terres en fesant de la politique pendant des annés sans succés avant de faire la guerre qui causa la mort de 1.5 million d'algériens dans la bataille évidement avec plus de détails

[@radhiadeedou8286]

No they don't, Algeria is not a tourism spot

[@petronille7877]

You do learn that in HGGSP class

[@bilkishchowdhury8318]

The banker people

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Jews were indigenous before Muslims arrived 😅 they are not colons, France took them from 3rd class subjects with no rights under Islamic rule to French citizens above the Muslims who oppressed them.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

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[@Darkdaej]

Psst! There's a chrome extension to "unhide" the dislike count, btw. It's still there, KZbin only hides it from view. As of posting this comment, the video had 6 dislikes for some reason.

[@AuroraBoost]

@@mitch8072 Yes, the extension works. I can see all dislikes in every video

[@MomMom4Cubs]

@@Darkdaej Oh! Thanx for the tip! I'm definitely gonna engage with that extension!

[@MomMom4Cubs]

What about Skye Chappelle?

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Don't forget about Phil de Oink Oink and Spinning Three Plates!

[@drmujtabashaikh8]

We can all agree that he never disappoints us with his content

[@thesigmamale2134]

We can all agree that you disappoint us every time you post this comment.

[@minedoimperija]

We can all agree that nobody gives a shit

[@ElOrange12]

why you here again

[@ElOrange12]

@Leo the British-Filipino true

[@OzzersOz]

You are 100 million percent right

[@ekarchromesnatch5344]

1:40 Nice attention to detail!

[@benivinson3693]

love how at 1:15 napoleon quickly darts his eyes back and fourth great detail

[@rollolol6053]

One caveat: the metropolitan authorities wanted to frenchify the Algerian population as soon as the 1870s. However frenchification would mean the local laws would disappear, and among other things polygamy wouldn't be tolerated anymore, nor the Islamic law. Needless to say, the central authorities saw the writing on the wall and made a distinct legal system in which the locals would still be subject to Islamic law. But as such they couldn't be given the same rights. The metropole still tried to encourage frenchification but the local settlers repressed any attempts of the metropole by making their policies ineffective.

[@ahmedmuawia2447]

It's also worth mentioning that not only were they required to renounce Local laws, But effectively Islam as well. Which was a big block against Algerians becoming French citizens (Ironically, Some missionaries in Ireland did a similar thing during the famine, where someone would have to become a Protestant in exchange for food. Those were later called soupers and were often considered traitors.)

[@joaoomega6627]

Religion is the biggest obstacle to assimilation.

[@TheKurtkapan34]

oh noo, we wanted to civilize them but they wanted to keep four wives so we couldn't waaaagh. colonizer scum.

[@shlomoshlomo963]

@@TheKurtkapan34 what

[@rollolol6053]

@@ahmedmuawia2447 Not technically true. The process needed the relinquish of Islamic law, not faith in itself. But the ulemas, afraid to lose their footing, proclaimed that relinquishing Islamic law was apostasy, and that meant everything would go moot. Besides, many among the metropolitan sided with this opinion, wether they were partisans of Napoleon III's ambition (creating an Algerian Kingdom in an union of states with France, thus respecting local culture and laws but also giving the Algerians equal rights), whether they were pro-colinization and settlement, or whether they were just racist.

[@Skr111pt]

A huge turning point in our struggle for independence was the 8 may 1945 massacres in which the french killed 45000 algerians

[@samrevlej9331]

Numbers are still disputed (though that seems close to the modern estimates I remember from my classes) and it took place over many months following the 8th of May, but yeah. One of the many ugly moments in colonial history. The French army were so afraid of independence movements due to how weak of a position they were in after WW2 that when a parade celebrating Nazi capitulation in Sétif turned into a riot after a policeman shot an Algerian kid bearing an independence flag, they went out in the countryside, burning douars (native villages), shooting civilians in rows and bombarding villages with napalm. They didn't even realize they'd just doomed themselves to lose Algeria.

[@paulf3999]

I believe it's actually 45 millions.

[@thedstorm8922]

@@paulf3999 45 million is our current population wtf are you talking about its 45000

[@sculptor8752]

@@thedstorm8922 between 3000 and 10 000 deaths more likely

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

FNL has done way worse massacres against civilians no less. Nobody is fooled except for the dumbasses. Stop playing the victim card.

[@TheTanveerGaming]

1:16 i love how napolean the third looks around when the board says no kings

[@Moncef.K]

Very interesting video great job. Some feedback, as an Algerian I can speak for myself and 65-70% of the population that grew up on hating and not forgiving colonial france and hating the modern governments for not issuing an official apology to Algeria and other countries in Africa subjected to french colonialism. I wished to see more emphasis on the role that resistance and Muslim scholars played in preserving the Algerian identity and how guerilla war went on for a hundred years. Even if for seconds not to affect the length of the video.

[@mrsupremegascon]

Yes Algeria is a very hateful country on that matter and is one of the thing that hold them back. Brainwashing in Algeria, where they learn in young age to hate France and a distorted version of history is indeed bad.

[@keyzer_napo]

maintenant construisez votre pays, ne mettez pas vos échecs sur le dos de la France. l'algérie a le meilleur potentiel de développement de l'afrique, mais vos dirigeants corrompus vous nourrissent une haine aveugle du colon qui a fui il y a plus de 60 ans pour maintenir leurs incapables au pouvoir, réveillez vous

[@Ektor-yj4pu]

North Africans never apologized to Europeans for centuries of raids and slavery by their pirates (a practice that ended only when Europeans shelled their ports and later occupied them). North Africans also never apologized to the Spanish for seven centuries of colonization.

[@Moncef.K]

@@Ektor-yj4pu The so-called raids were only conducted on passing fleets that didn't pay the tax of passing by the area of the Mediterranean controlled by the Algerian/Ottoman fleet. It's normal that the strong impose their rules as was/is/will always be the norm (i.e. the bully and criminal policy of the U.S.) Note the difference in our arguments, I say the french government should apologize for the genocides and nuclear tests conducted on civilians and the massacre of more than 7 million people. While you give an excuse to the aforementioned massacre and colonization using "slavery"? Since we're using this "you apologize first" logic, how about Europeans apologize for forcefully recruiting people from colonized lands to fight and die for them in WWII? Why don't Europeans apologize for the amount of killing and ravaging done in the DARK ages? Why don't Europeans apologize to more than one million Iraqis and more than double that in Afghanistan for repeating the same mistake and attacking foreign soil they have no claim or right nor motive to attack? Why don't Europeans apologize to Libia for destroying the country and sucking/smuggling oil for their own interests? You write of the "Spanish colonization by North Africa" that information is inaccurate as the army that marched towards Spain was not entirely North African. Moreover, and as was the case then, the political, religious and military leaders marched to Spain to spread islam. Anyone who paid the tax was guaranteed protection of their living style and faith practice. What colonization do you write about? Do you understand how much the Andalusian scientific, cultural, Philosophical, geographic, historical, astronomical, mathematical, medical, biological, etc... Revolutions contributed to the so-called "Renaissance"? There would be no Europe if it weren't for the achievements done during the golden Andalusian era! These revolutions happened during a time of prosperity and peace where Muslim, Christian and Jew lived all in peace. Give me one good thing that came out of the invasions of European imperialism; aside from destruction, massacres and forever corrupt governments with ideologies the European invader left before leaving the country defeated wherein his interests represented in the outflow of goods, minerals and cheap labor would be protected by future generations of corrupt leaders. Your argument is that of a mal-educated adolescent who is guided by a pathetic and FALSE superiority complex. Or at least that's what your comment portrays. It's either that or you are, indeed an adolescent whose mind hasn't yet fully developed to look at bigger pictures. In other words @Ektor-yj4pu, if you are European, you aren't hot shit so get over yourself. You are the descendant of murderers who climbed on the achievements of our ancestors. If you aren't European, then fyi they aren't hot shit, and are the descendants of murderers who climbed on the achievements of our ancestors. Moreover, BE VERY AWARE AND EDUCATED ABOUT ANY TOPIC THAT YOU CHOSE TO SHARE YOUR OPINIONS ONLINE ABOUT; ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE JUST ATTACKING WHEN MY FEEDBACK WAS DIRECTED TO THE CONTENT CREATOR.

[@user-sq6hu2fo8g]

​​@@Ektor-yj4puyou're kidding me, right??? Have you ever heard of the crusades? Or are you twisting the history right now?

[@lugano1999]

I cannot recommend more highly the film, "The Battle of Algiers." It is an outstanding recreation of the battle for independence fought by the indigenous population.

[@yugonostalgia8961]

So good but so depressing

[@cv4809]

"Indigenous"

[@TheJok3rMan]

Arab colonizers are hardly native lol

[@TheyCallMeOswald]

@@TheJok3rMan algerians arent arabs genius

[@yugonostalgia8961]

@@TheJok3rMan Haha the Arab expansion happened a thousand years before French colonization - also both the Berbers and Arabs weren't citizens under French Algeria so it's no wonder they rebelled

[@Weeksmistro]

You really animated a hopping bullet lol. I love this channel!

[@amosmunezero9958]

Love how the Algerians resisted !! one of the greatest struggles for independence in Africa

[@zimriel]

As I recall the Algerians lost that war, but De Gaulle surrendered anyway. Not so different to how the Viet Cong (1968) and then North Vietnamese (1972) lost their wars, but then the US Congress surrendered anyway . . .

[@josebenardi1554]

​@zimriel North Vietnam never lost the war, what are you going about?

[@zimriel]

@@josebenardi1554 Chiến dịch Xuân-Hè 1972 reed moar

[@utkarshsoni3300]

@@zimrielNorth Vietnam never lost the war they always engaged in gurilla warfare throughout the war

[@Losangelesharvey]

good for you

[@spoe4879]

Love and support Algeria from Tunisia 🇹🇳❤🇩🇿

[@weirdfairy]

Best bros ever 🇹🇳🇩🇿❤❤❤

[@spoe4879]

@@weirdfairy of course 🇹🇳❤🇩🇿

[@user-ny4ym2sd9v]

شكرا🇹🇳🇩🇿❤❤❤❤❤

[@adamelghalmi9771]

im from morocco but inshallah everything gets better with algeria and morocco and we unite as one muslim state

[@kacperfrontczak1257]

🇩🇿🐐🤓☝️

[@Jay-qb9gi]

What was the Ottomans and/or Chinese reaction to France during the Napoleonic Wars?

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

Napoleon invaded Egypt and fought the Ottomans

[@QuarianGuy]

Before Napoleon was in charge, the Ottoman reaction was one of: "Get the fuck out." During the Napoleonic Wars, the Ottoman reaction was one of: "Glad that's not us."

[@f3tsch906]

One could also include india or the us.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Our French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte aka Master of Europe, known to be Greatest Strategic Military Genius and Best Conquerer/General in History with 56 battles. Vive l'Empereur ! Tremblez enemis de la France ! Un Français doit vivre pour elle ! Pour elle un Français doit mourir !

[@ayouberriouch6876]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 but in the biggest and most important war o In history . You become the joke of the world and surrendered too easy and too soon .

[@joaoonda]

A Very interesting video as always! Keep up the good work!

[@yazzy6415]

Can you make a video of the role of the Sovjet Union in now called Algeria? And in this video you inform they voted against, but in old France newspaper and other sources they voted oui.

[@xangpee8271]

Wow you could almost literally replace France with Britain in this story and replace Algeria with Ireland and you'd have a pretty decent video on Irish history. Seen some pretty strong parallels between the 2 nations really interesting!

[@zuzuzuko3947]

​@@ComradeHistorian I see some french pride got wounded here 😅

[@ComradeHistorian]

@@zuzuzuko3947 nah just pointing out the obvious errors and dishonesty in the video. I'm not French, I'm American. I have no pride for a country I've never seen

[@Pinkhairedkilla]

@@ComradeHistorian I smell a racist

[@Pinkhairedkilla]

@@ComradeHistorian look shit brain , the barbary pirates stopped when your country USA came and kicked our ass in 1815 , and then after you the Dutch and the English 1816 , so stop using it as excuse, the real reason was France refused to pay us our money back in what is known as "Bacri-Busnach affair" And no we won that war, just the American casualties were higher in American Revolution against Britain yet y'all consider it a win, just like Vietnam they lost a lot of ppl but they kicked you out of their country

[@testjubaking9884]

@@ComradeHistorian t’es ancêtres ont massacrés les Amérindiens Les Algériens ne sont pas des amérindiens Ils se battent jusqu’au bout La mort n’est pas une défaite

[@cybersnake16]

0:59 Ah yes, the well known algerian guerilla tactic of hiding in clouds. A classic

[@GuilhermePereira-vi6vc]

In the case of my country, Portugal, it was the same thing. The government during the dictatorship of Salazar also said that Angola, Moçambique and all the other colonies were not actually colonies but were just another districts of Portugal. Of course the people in that "districts" didn't had the same rights as white portuguese people

[@69socialmedia97]

Ottoman empire accepted everybody equal since exist as a state but system was different for Christian,Muslim and etc.Muslim.have to go soldier but Anothers maybe can pay more taxes than don't need it

[@matmcd]

In the case of my country, Brazil, it became a United Kingdom with Portugal after the move of the Royal Family because of Napoleon's invasion (always him). But that story you know too. :)

[@Matheus-wg5nq]

Portugal meio que fez isso com o brasil em 1645, quando transformou a região em um principado, que posteriormente virou reino, tento inclusive abrigado a capital de portugal.

[@alexandrearaujo2877]

Dude, I don't think anyone, regardless of their skin color or place of origin, who lives under, like you said, a *dictatorship* is really going to have "rights" as a whole.

[@salpe8209]

@@69socialmedia97 "Equal", say this to the lebanese, kurds, armenians, etc

[@EoghanFallon]

Really nice video, thank you. Subscribed.

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

The solder hiding in the cloud is very funny :)

[@aminekacimi.__.3307]

I love ur channel from Algeria u did a good job in this video ❤

[@w5527]

I love how “guerrilla warfare” means someone can hide in a cloud and snipe their opponents. It’s great

[@shinsenshogun900]

My kind of asymmetrical warfare

[@347Jimmy]

@@Iason29 0:58 👍👍

[@RankinMsP]

"Unkingified him" is my new favourite phrase. Thanks

[@foreveryoung607]

An important event that explains more the decision of 1947: on the 8th of May, 1945, demonstrations were held by Algerians demanding autonomy and freedom but they were brutally suppressed (in a matter of a couple of days thousands were killed, we call it the May Massacres) and thousands more were murdered in the ensuing years. It is then that the idea of armed revolution became concrete because political solutions did not seem to work. This tension was behind the 1947 decision, which was France’s attempt at appeasement. But it was too late by then.

[@thierrydesu]

Parlez-nous un peu des civils qui ont été massacrés par les Algériens en mai 1945 ?

[@foreveryoung607]

@@thierrydesu you seem to know more about them than I do, so go right ahead, do tell about them. My intention is not to overshadow the other side of the story, but since there has been an obvious hierarchization of human lives, putting Algerians right at the bottom, I find it extremely important to be vocal about what happened.

[@novedad4468]

Almighty History Matters, you who answers the question we have and the ones we don't. I implore you to answer me the biggest question of all: Where did the postcredit scenes go? I miss them...

[@ahistoric_gamer9716]

I love how Algiers was split up in the style of the French tricolour 😂

[@Mnu103]

I saw it too😂

[@JohnDiceAcademy]

I don't get it😂

[@18pablo88]

Why do you love it, invasion isn't great

[@haydent4461]

And the blue section even changed color to match the recent change to the French flag!

[@charlesdegaulle6663]

🇫🇷

[@1207rorupar]

Hum, not sure how the Philippines worked, but although not part of Spain, Mexico (New Spain) was treated as an integral part of the Spanish Crown. Basically for the Crown there was no difference between Castile and New Spain (one was not over or under the other), both were -legally- at the same level and both were integral parts of the Spanish Empire. Maybe the independence movements in America changed how the Spanish Empire administered and legally viewed it's Ultramarine territories?

[@loubaxo9339]

That also kinda happened with the portuguese colonies during the 60s and early 70s, they started being called "Ultramarine Provinces" and the inhabitants received citizenship (even the black africans if they where loyal to the regime)

[@HelloThere-bg7hq]

France was working hard to frenchify Algeria by trying to convert Algerian's Arabic Muslim culture into the french one . France destroyed the mosques and the arabic schools and gave French names to the local regions like streets, villages, cities .... Also it banned algerians from education and if yes , it was only the French education ,which was an attempt to make algerians learn french and speak it fluently and later assimilate in the french culture

[@youneskasdi]

Which they succeded mostly in it, looking at modern algerian speaking french with no problem some even better than arabic their main language

[@HelloThere-bg7hq]

@@youneskasdi Yes , to some extent they succeeded. Now most Algerians can speak French or at least hold a simple conversation in french. But they failed in matter of culture . Algerians remained Muslims and could preserve their Arab-berber culture

[@raoufduc1441]

@@HelloThere-bg7hq no you are very wrong France didn't band Arabic language I. The contrary

[@brianwashedhunter1150]

But that increased Islam in Algeria since it was an act of resistance to become Muslim And more importantly non Muslims could servive as a group so they became Muslims

[@brianwashedhunter1150]

@@raoufduc1441 No they did Arabic as well as Islamic teaching and mosques

[@jennyneon]

We all want History Matters to be our history teacher, he makes history much more interesting with animations.

[@xymos7807]

And he does it without slamming the integrity of other countries.

[@NylfaenNoldoreth]

Fun fuct: There is an island on the Comorin archipelago (between Madagascar and mainland Africa), that is still counted as part of France, and because of that every person born there automatically gets french citizenship, the small island has been struggling for decades with illegal immigration, where thousands of mothers try to get in there just to give birth to little "Frenchman".

[@drhur1793]

The host of this channel is a scholar and speaks in terms we can all understand.

[@ComradeHistorian]

No he definitely is not. Once again History matters leaves out the history that actually matters. He fails to explain why France invaded Algeria. The beylik of algeirs had been openly supporting and funding the Barbary pirates who attacked neutral vessels and enslaved the sailors. France invaded to put an end to the pirates and their slave trade, which they were successful in doing. He's also clearly being disingenuous when implying France lost Algeria due to military failure. The French army had been decently effective in taking out FLN cells. It was protest from the French people and international pressure that ended the war. It was not a military defeat in any way. I urge you to reconsider taking this guys word on anything, he's intentionally leaving out key facts to push an agenda. There are dozens of good history channels, this is not one of them

[@jaspboynl8094]

Didn't Portugal also do a similar thing with their colonies? Officially making them Portuguese but not really.

[@andrewtheskyshooter]

Portugal was never officially an empire, always a kingdom or republic, so "technically" it never had colonies. During the dictatorship this vision was realized with the change in designation to "ultramarine provinces" to style the country as "multiracial and pluricontinental".

[@lhistorienchipoteur9968]

@@andrewtheskyshooter We aren't talking about "empire" in the sens of "with an emperor and calling itself an empire" here. It's just about a very large territory under one dominance, as a colonial empire, just like "the british empire".

[@andrewtheskyshooter]

@@lhistorienchipoteur9968 are you under the impression that i think Portugal never had an empire?

[@Dragoncam13]

Yeah but the difference was was that under Salazar everyone in those colonies were seen as full fledged Portuguese citizens no matter their race and in Angola specifically,many of those people wanted to remain apart of Portugal. Only reasons why the Portuguese empire really ended was because of a coup that may or may not have the CIA involved in it happening and America and Europe somehow having capitalist proxies as soon as the new socialist Portugal regressed their claims on Angola which started a 30 year civil war which led to commies stealing billions from the natural mineral wealth there. Salazar’s Portugal was unironically the good guy in the ending of European colonialism. Also it’s still messed up how Portugal was at odds for owning it’s colonies yet the Us,France,and Britain technically have colonies(utter hypocrisy)

[@guilhermecesar9185]

Portugal did part of this in Brazil. In 1808, during the continental blockade by Napoleon (It's always him...) the Portuguese Crown declared suport to british and while France must pass trough Spain to get to the Portuguese, they've already run to Brazil with the help of UK, leading their population to face France. When the Portuguese come, they move their capital from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro and change their status from colonie to "Vice Kingdom of Portugal and Algarves", so they can open direct trade with their allies and british Empire. Brazil keep this status after the royal family leaves to Portugal post Napoleonic Wars until brazilian indepence in 1822(Yes, this year will be 200th aniversary of independence).

[@stewieg9628]

Everytime this guy uploads he gives me answers to questions I never knew I would ever be asking in my entire life

[@nateowen1064]

It reminds me of how the USA made Hawaii literally part of them instead of just as a colony like Puerto Rico

[@nateowen1064]

I hope both Hawaii and Puerto Rico get their freedom just like Algeria did

[@lahcenechel1855]

Algerien Revolution was very strong and one of the most amazing revolution on the modern century thats why france is gone 🇩🇿

[@M-Rayan]

as a morrocan i am very happy that you expelled the colonists 🇲🇦🤝🇩🇿

[@athyyy98]

@@M-Rayan I respect moroccan ppl. Insha'allah Palestine will be free too 🤲

[@jaybk718]

The Battle for Algiers is a great film that covers the revolution. Frantz Fanon's, A Dying Colonialism is pretty good too.

[@tamersalim4175]

A must watch. I totally agree.

[@solwen]

Mind that it was made by a communist: It's somewhat biased toward the FLN terrorists

[@jaybk718]

@@solwen how do you fight a imperialist power?

[@solwen]

@@jaybk718 Like the all the other French African colonies that got their independence: Peacefully and without bombing cafes full of civilians.

[@jaybk718]

@@solwen how do you think France gained and retained power?

[@benhamon4611]

I don’t know how exactly this would fit into the context of this video, but I’d love to see a video about Abd al-Qadir, a leader of the early Algerian resistance that was eventually defeated in 1848 as alluded to in this video. He was quite remarkable, so something detailing his actions both in Algeria and afterwards in Syria would be very interesting!

[@amineacademy1544]

i believe hes was betrayed by the king of morocco in the determining battle against the french

[@yazidalaoui3365]

@@amineacademy1544 no he was forced by france to stop supporting abdelkader

[@chahineboudemagh9596]

@@yazidalaoui3365 i don't see how that's any different

[@emmakleiner8470]

I hate to say this but unfortunately he betrayed his own country when he sold info to France in order to let him be at peace in Syria I am so sorry to my youngest self believing he was our hero ... Now I see why my grandpa never liked it when I read about him

[@kabylieindependante4902]

From my knowledge he was a good friend of France 🇫🇷 ! Even he asked the French to crush the bey and kabylian resistance.... for many he is traitor.

[@user-sn1kp1nn6i]

Fun fact: when the french invaded Algeria the illiteracy rate was under 20% and 132 years later when they were kicked out the illiteracy rate was 80%.

[@landlockedcroat1554]

speaking french is as good as being illiterate

[@adankmeme651]

0:58 Vietnamese guerillas: we hide in trees! Algerian Guerillas: *hold my cloud*

[@elim6759]

Simple: they completed that one National Focus in HOI4

[@mypetbeardedragon2186]

Protests escalate into violence!

[@ferbsol2334]

Of course you are a troon

[@mypetbeardedragon2186]

@@ferbsol2334 HOI4 has nothing to do with this do not slander my game.

[@ferbsol2334]

@@mypetbeardedragon2186 keep telling yourselft that

[@mypetbeardedragon2186]

@@ferbsol2334 HOI4 made me racist and put me on an NSA watchlist. He is going to kill himself in 6 weeks anyway

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"If France gathered all its wealth and asked me to be it's puppet king, I would refuse. I would rather be free and poor" - Abdelkader Al-Jazaery

[@dragenmaster5385]

he literally became france puppet lol

[@phoebushelius9264]

@@dragenmaster5385 Nope

[@wonka9917]

@@dragenmaster5385 nope

[@Hopeforhumans]

@@dragenmaster5385 Yep he did, but still he did good things throughout his life, a controversial figure.

[@chberkane7976]

​@@dragenmaster5385 you literally told us that you are kbayli without telling us that you're kbayli

[@theknightswhosay]

Unkingified has a nice ring to it

[@dhiakaabi8596]

That's a pretty interesting way to sum up over a hundred years of colonisation

[@johnbalk6091]

2:58 "You're people now." Hilarious!

[@FIREBRAND38]

3:14 "Bullets don't care about your pride". How true.

[@senoalamsyah7481]

I still remember reading a book about dutch settler in Indonesia who survive from the Japanese CC, she was 13/14 at that time. In that book she said she saw something she never seen before which is native kid run freely on the street of their neighbourhood and watching her and others got in the Japanese truck, and she said later after she got out of the train (after transfering city to be moved to woman CC) many native people cheering and happy and some even spit on her and the other people, than she asked herself 'why they hate us so much ?. Long story short the WW2 over, the Indonesian independence war begin and she got back to the Netherlands, and she always remembering that experience to the point that she hate Indonesian so much and she said she even join protest when first conference of cease fire happen in Indonesia, she want the war continue, for her, Indonesia is belong to the Netherlands. Long story short the war over, Indonesia gain their independence, and she went to Indonesia to the city where she grew up as kid and she talked with the local people there than she realise what she felt and what the native felt during that time is so different and she realise why it happened to her and she said 'what we did was indeed terrible and now i understand why they hate us so much'. So it doesn't matter the Algeria was part France or not, same with it doesn't matter the France was part of Germany during occupation or not, the important thing is how the algerian felt during the the France rule since for me what they felt was the same from what France felt during German occupation. Other is mostly the foreign settler in imperialism era never understand and never care of the native people at that time because the way of thinking based on illusion of superiority idea that run wild during that time to the point that education even science grew under the assumption of that superiority idea and it used to be justification of that illusion. And in the present day, what happened is happen and people from former colonizer country today don't have responsibility from what people from the past did, but they have responsibility to learn it so the same mistake will not happened again in the present and in the future. Problem is the goverment doen't want you to learn. yeah there was a time when hundreds of year of Dutch colonization period in Indonesia only summarized in one page in Dutch history book for school purpose and they write more about US war crime in cambodia and vietnam which they even not take part of it in that book. So learn

[@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704]

So... Spit onto a child's face because "screw it, she's white"? "two wrongs make a right"?

[@andrewzhou4228]

Still better than United States. Still a settler nation to this day.

[@sto1238]

I get the feeling the Indonesians weren’t cheering for very long

[@toastyanon8902]

@@sto1238 Nope. But by the same token, that didn't mean the Indonesians were eager to welcome back their former Dutch overlords either. They wanted them both gone.

[@arrielradja5522]

​@@sto1238 were still cheering even after 75+ years were still cheering

[@ilyesmakarov8923]

you skipped the part of 8 may 1945 sir where 45000 were killed just because they wanted a free country

[@koukous95]

add to that the part were they tested nuclear bombs on algerians resulting on many health issues and deaths till date.

[@ilyesmakarov8923]

@@koukous95 they wont add that cause they don't wanna know the Truth. We won't forget what they did to us till then we will payback

[@koukous95]

@@ilyesmakarov8923 Just europeans glorifying themselves and hiding the atrocities they made.

[@ilyesmakarov8923]

@@koukous95 they are " civilized" hight class first world people . And we supposed to work for them as slaves we payedone and half millions souls to be where we are now.

[@charlesdegaulle6663]

3:22 "Fine I'll do it myself" - Thanos

[@jpfl14999]

French Guiana still is a part of France to this day

[@kompatybilijny9348]

And it will most likely stay that way

[@whishiwhooshi5783]

But it's not apart of metropolitan France

[@de_sennectere]

And it will be forever, however it is not like we've seen in this video considering that the inhabitants of the territory are all considered French people and have the same rights than someone from Paris. So French Guiana is not a colony anymore.

[@RenegadeShepard69]

French Guyana will one day be free. The citizens deserve better and the liberation mouvements are making slow but steady progress.

[@hebl47]

It's also part of EU. So EU has a land border with Brazil.

[@darkcoeficient]

I lost it with the cloud sniper. Honhonhonhonhon

[@Amine-gr8xe]

Absolutely based Algeria

[@koviar]

1:40 I see what you did there, a little sneaky flag🇨🇵

[@Diegomax22]

When I visited the City Hall of Paris, I noticed in the principal room paintings of woman on the ceiling about French regions, Normandy, Île de France were represented and even Algeria. Greetings from France 🇫🇷 !

[@hmmm3210]

Gross

[@gabrielr3390]

@@hmmm3210 That's history bud. Its a whole lot of humanity being gross

[@007VitaminD]

@@gabrielr3390 Its worse because France still justifies it and doesn’t want to change. So they are still enforcing the degeneracy of back them.

[@gabrielr3390]

@@007VitaminD Justifies it? Macron called colonisation a and I quote "A crime against humanity". And recently acknowledged two massacres during French occupation and apologised on behalf of France. They aren't enforcing it anymore

[@lhemnenn4713]

@@007VitaminD Doesn't want to change what exactly ? I'm just curious ...

[@swordkirbyfilms7747]

I don’t know he, but the lines “1848 was a year that stuff happened” and “one of these stuff”. Particularly the latter.

[@mansurgolden8297]

In 0:34 regency of Algiers is exaggerated in fact this regency controls only the cost sea but the south of this ottomans vassals was under Moroccan Cherifien dominion

[@maxwellmueller9384]

Is it just a coincidence that this video came out 3 days after The Cold War released their video on the War of Algerian Independence?

[@connorgolden4]

A question I didn’t ask but I’m glad to get the answer for.

[@juliocubias91]

the "No Rosbifs" sign absolutely killed me 😂😂😂😂

[@astrobullivant5908]

@3:26, No, while millions of Algerians were killed in their war for independence, no more than 100,000 French and pro-French soldiers were killed. There was a military stalemate. The French could have held at least some of Algeria such as the city of Oran, but they lacked the political will to do so, especially when news of many atrocities committed by French soldiers reached mainland France.

[@massialim4996]

Most of the algerians martyrs were innocents civilians including kids, women while the estimated ALN soldiers number is around 30 000

[@just_lazhar]

France thought that let give Algerian what they want and we will control them politically afterwards just like how Britain did with India, but they failed eventually

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

​@@just_lazharThey failed to see that Britian at least somewhat put in an effort to keep somewhat decent relations with their former vassals.

[@just_lazhar]

@@ibraheemshuaib8954 couldn‘t agree more

[@christianweibrecht6555]

I watched a detailed video about the Algerian Independence war from "the Cold war" yesterday My impression is that initially french Algeria was just like apartheid era South Africa then as Independence movement gained massive momentum France tried treating it similar to how the British treated Ireland

[@marcbuisson2463]

Also, the algerian war brang the problem of Algeria to the metropolitan french: Before this, the troops in Algeria were colonial and professionals. The local french were mostly pieds noirs, often coming from Spain or Italie so not even french for most of them except the colonial elite (which lobby in the multiple goverments was strong af. I don't think we can talk about colonialism in the european countries without speaking about parlementary democracies and lobbies). So when normal french people discovered what was really happening there, there was a strong backlash. The young french people were drafted to go fight a war in an appartheid like state, 10-20 years after WW2. And just like in the USA after WW2, discovering the reality of what happened on french soil made them fought about the morality of it. If there was any chance Algeria had to stay french, there was no way but to avoid changes, simply because the french population got more and more angry about what was happening the more they were confronted to it. Also, the draft was huuugely unpopular. I have a great grandma who took part in the protests and they used to stop the trains bringing the drafted young guys by laying on the tracks to force the trains to stop. (I suspect the SNCF syndicates and communists to have had a tendency to... leak the hours of these trains)

[@zakariabenabedrabou1388]

Algerian here, france fucked us hard for 132 years

[@dogeofgreatness2222]

@@zakariabenabedrabou1388 well everybody passed through tough times.

[@zakariabenabedrabou1388]

@@dogeofgreatness2222 sure thing,not saying otherwise

[@raid99]

@@zakariabenabedrabou1388 why would you put it like that You’re a godamn disgrace to this nation

[@rostommamadji5533]

Very happy and proud to know that other countries call Algeria, the regency of Algeria, and that it was an independent regency since 1781.

[@tarekaouimeur4876]

It was independant way before this date

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

It never existed as a country.

[@nourerrahmanebrahmia4035]

1671°

[@neylladjouzi3271]

1710*

[@adilnourddine9747]

1962.. algeria is a french creation

[@allenpinnix5241]

"Charles X was un-kingified"..... you have to love this channel!

[@aqiw7603]

Good job on Algeria.

[@mailfergal]

That sniper in the cloud killed me!! 🤣 A lot in that episode, will rewatch in a few months as per usual. A tip of the hat sir 🎩

[@beefyblom]

Cloud-sniper's killcount: 2

[@spaghettiking7312]

Finally, someone who says the Regency of Algiers was de facto independent!

[@massialim4996]

I think everyone is saying this, in any ancient 16th century map you can find the regency of Algiers with its border

[@solwen]

If the regency was independent then why so many revolts against the Ottomans in the early XIXth century ?

[@massialim4996]

@@solwen because even though it was independent, most of the leaders were Turkish or khourghoulis ( who has an arabic/berber father and a Turkish mother or the opposite) so the natives weren't able to rule their country ( except for some small emirates like beni abbas and Toughourt and the Mzab valley ) , which means technically the the natives will revolts against the regency to take control of the country

[@nourerrahmanebrahmia4035]

@@solwen they were not independentist or separatist movements, it really depends on how the ruler ruled

[@likkz1326]

@@massialim4996 so false lmfao , Algiers took its de facto independence in 1710 after Ali baba chaouch did a military coup against the Bey and sent him back to Constantinople he refused to accept any ottoman representatives which marked the official independence from Algeria

[@MN-vw3rp]

Good vid n shi7, but story is far more deeper and has so much important details that are not mentioned, such as algerians volunteering for france army because france promised leaving algeria if they secured them their country from nazis, they fought germany in ww2 and win which shocked both parties france and germany and guess what! They did lie indeed and 08/05 carnages happened shortly after( i highly recommend looking for this one), there is also the trying to take the desert and give up their precious north due to discovery of oil... ect

[@kalafinwe5498]

Your part on the war of independence (1954-1961) is a huge summary. It was much more complex, and your general resume doesn't do it justice.