Battle of Sidi Semiane
Battle during the Algerian War
Battle of Sidi Semiane | |||||||
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Part of Algerian War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
France | FLN | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
850 soldiers | 35 militants | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
150 killed, 200 wounded | 2 killed |
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Algerian War
1950s
- Toussaint Rouge
- Boukerker
- Véronique
- El Djorf I
- Philippeville
- Blue Bird
- Palestro
- Algiers
- Fellaoucene
- Oued Zeggar
- Sidi Semiane
- Agounennda
- Bouzegza
- El Menaouer
- Essien
- Timimoun
- Bab El Bekkouche
- Borders
- May 1958 crisis
- 1st Ouled Bouachra
- Ath Yahia Moussa
- Jumelles
- [Plan Challe] (1959-1961)
1960s
- Algiers putsch
- Paris
- Bab El Oued
- Oran
- Boutaleb
- Bouk’hil
- Nasinsa
- Ouled Rashache
- Flawcen
- 2nd Ouled Bouachra
- Kef Lakhdar
- Ouled Sinan
- Guergour
- Kef Afoul
The Battle of Sidi Semiane was a 4 hour combat during the Algerian War of Independence which took place on 20 May 1957 in the Dahra mountains in Wilaya IV.[1]
The French army mobilized 850 soldiers to surprise attack 35 mujahideen of the Algerian National Liberation Front as revenge for the Algerian victory in the battle of Sidi Mohand Aklouche on 26 April 1957. The battle lasted more than 4 hours, and French commander Gaudion and his battalion suffered a heavy defeat which cost him more than 150 dead and more than 200 wounded, meanwhile the Algerians only lost two men, Si Slimane and Si Mahfoud.[2][3]
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