Significant1881 – 1903 · 22 years

French Conquest of the Sahara

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Tuat · Hoggar · Tidikelt · In Salah · Tit

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Two-decade French conquest of the Algerian and central Sahara, including the Flatters expeditions and the Battle of Tit.

Belligerents3

Third French Republic
Tuareg confederations
Saharan oasis polities

Conflict graph

PART OFFrench Conquest of Algeria

SUB-CONFLICTS · 7

Battle of Ingosten1899
Battle of In Rhar1900
Battle of In Salah1900
Battle of Charouine1901
Battle of Timimoun1901
Battle of El Moungar1903
Battle of Taghit1903

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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