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| commander1 = {{flagicon|FRA|1794}} General ] |
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| commander1 = {{flagicon|FRA|1794}} General ]<br />{{flagicon|FRA|1794}} Governor ] |
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{{flagicon|FRA|1794}} Governor of French possessions in Africa ] |
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| strength1 = Roughly a brigade-sized force ~2000-3000 men |
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The '''Battle of Sikkak''' was fought on 6 July 1836 at the Sikkak river between French forces under General ''']''',and a coalition of Algerian tribes of western Algeria under Emir ], who had in the previous year defeated the French at the ]. |
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The '''Battle of Sikkak''' was fought on 6 July 1836<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McDougall |first=James |title=A History of Algeria |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-02923-0 |edition=1 |location=Cambridge}}</ref> at the Sikkak river in western Algeria between French forces under General ],and a coalition of Algerian tribes of western Algeria under Emir ], who had in the previous year defeated the French at the ]. |
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The result was a French victory, that lead to the ]<ref>{{Cite book |last=McDougall |first=James |title=A History of Algeria |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-02923-0 |edition=1 |location=Cambridge}}</ref> negotiated between the two commanders of this battle. |
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The result was a French victory<ref name=":0" />, this accomplished French aims of weakening Abd al-Qadirs state to force a peace. ] was latter negotiated between the two commanders of this battle. |
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France used the peace brought about by the victory to concentrate their limited forces against the ], winning the 1837 ]<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Roughton |first=Richard A. |date=1985-05-01 |title=Economic Motives and French Imperialism: The 1837 Tafna Treaty as a Case Study |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6563.1985.tb00667.x |journal=The Historian |language=en |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=360–381 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1985.tb00667.x |issn=0018-2370}}</ref>. |
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The battle represents the last large clash of forces between France and the forces of Abd al-Qadir, though with intermittent peace agreements he would continue to ] against French rule until ]<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Thoral |first=Marie-Cecile |title=French Colonial Counter-Insurgency: General Bugeaud and the Conquest of Algeria, 1840-47 |url=https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/608 |journal=British Journal for Military History |volume=1 |issue=2}}</ref>. |
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The result was a French victory, this accomplished French aims of weakening Abd al-Qadirs state to force a peace. Treaty of Tafna was latter negotiated between the two commanders of this battle.
The battle represents the last large clash of forces between France and the forces of Abd al-Qadir, though with intermittent peace agreements he would continue to wage a low intensity conflict against French rule until his surrender in 1847.
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