List of wars involving Algeria

This is a list of wars involving the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and its predecessor states.

Numidia

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Jugurthine War
(112-106 BC)
Numidia Roman Republic Defeat

Regency of Algiers

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Moroccan-Algerian war (1691)
(1691)
Regency of Algiers Morocco Victory
Algerian-Tunisian War (1694)
(1694)
Regency of Algiers
Support:
Regency of Tripolitania
Eyalet of Tunis Victory
Algerian-Tunisian War (1700)
(1700)
Regency of Algiers Eyalet of Tunis Victory
Algerian-Tunisian War (1705)
(1705)
Regency of Algiers Eyalet of Tunis Stalemate
Algerian-Tunisian War (1735)
(1735)
Regency of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Victory
Algerian-Tunisian war (1756)
(1756)
Regency of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Victory
Spanish-Algerian war (1775-1785)
(1775-1785)
Regency of Algiers Spain
Tuscany
Victory
Siege of Oran and Mers el-Kébir (1790-1792) Regency of Algiers Spain Victory
Algerian-Tunisian war (1807)
(1807)
Regency of Algiers
  • Beylik of Constantine
Beylik of Tunis Defeat
Algerian-Tunisian naval war (1811)
(1811)
Regency of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Victory
Second Barbary War
(1815)
Regency of Algiers  United States Defeat
Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
(1816)
Regency of Algiers  United Kingdom
 Netherlands
Defeat

Modern Algeria

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
French conquest of Algeria
(18301903)
Regency of Algiers
  • Beylik of Constantine

Emirate of Abdelkader
Kingdom of Ait Abbas
Sultanate of Tuggurt
Kel Ahaggar

Kingdom of France (1830–1848) Defeat
Algerian War
(19541962)
FLN
MNA
PCA
 France
OAS
FAF
Diplomatic victory[1]
FFS Rebellion
(19631964)[3]
 Algeria FFS Government victory
  • Rebellion quelled.
Sand War
(1963)
 Algeria
Supported by:
 Egypt
 Cuba[4]
 Morocco Stalemate
  • The closing of the border south of Figuig.
October War
(1973)[5]
 Egypt
 Syria
Iraq
 Jordan
 Algeria
Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 Cuba
 Israel Defeat[6]
  • Algeria sent a squadron each of MiG-21s and Su-7s to Egypt, which arrived at the front between October 9 and October 11. It also sent an armored brigade of 150 tanks, the advance elements of which began to arrive on October 17, but reached the front only on October 24, too late to participate in the fighting
Western Sahara War
(1976)[7]
Polisario Front
Supported by:
 Algeria
 Morocco
 Mauritania
Supported by:
 France (1977–78, Operation Lamantin, aid from 1978)
Ceasefire[8]
  • Mauritania withdrawal of territorial claims[9]
Algerian Civil War
(19912002)
 Algeria AIS
GIA
Government victory
  • Islamic insurgency quelled.

See also

References

  1. Matthew James Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-cold War Era, Oxford University Press, 2002
  2. References:
    • The Algerian War 1954-62, By Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell, page 11
    • Introduction to Comparative Politics, By Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William Joseph, page 108
    • Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations, By Alexander Cooley, Hendrik Spruyt, page 63
    • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Jan 1967, page 48
    • Christian A. Herter: The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy By George Bernard Noble, page 155
  3. Michael U. Mbanaso & Chima J. Korieh, Minorities and the State in Africa, p.89, Cambria Press, 2010 (ISBN 9781621968740)
  4. Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
  5. Algeria sent a squadron each of MiG-21s and Su-7s to Egypt, which arrived at the front between October 9 and October 11. It also sent an armored brigade of 150 tanks, the advance elements of which began to arrive on October 17, but reached the front only on October 24, too late to participate in the fighting.
  6. References:
  7. Toby Shelley (6 November 2004). Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony?. Zed Books. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-84277-341-3. Algeria has not intervened directly in the fighting in the Western Sahara since early 1976 when there were two skirmishes between Algerian and Moroccan forces around the waterhole of Amgala. But at the diplomatic level Algeria has, to date, fought with persistence and skill
  8. Oded Haklai; Neophytos Loizides (14 October 2015). Settlers in Contested Lands: Territorial Disputes and Ethnic Conflicts. Stanford University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8047-9650-7.
  9. Yahia H. Zoubir; Haizam Amirah-Fernández (15 January 2008). North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-08740-2.
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