What if the anti-French uprising in Algeria in 1871 was successful?
During/after the French were defeated in the 1871 Franco-Prussian War, an Algerian tribal leader named Muhammed al-Muqrani allied with the sheik Haddad of the Rahmaniyya Sufi brotherhood and led an uprising that engulfed most of eastern Algeria. The rebels won several early victories before al-Muqrani's death in battle in 1871. The uprising "lost its momentum" and within a year the rebellion was put down. 1/4 of the Algerian populace was fined 35 million francs and lost 450,000 hectacres of agricultural land. The autonomy of the various religious brotherhoods was broken and the interior brought more firmly under French control.
I imagine the POD could be that al-Muqrani doesn't die when he does. Can the rebellion succeed? Or, if it is crushed later, what effects would it have? What effects would this French entanglement have on the "Scramble for Africa"? The crises leading up to WWI (esp. the Moroccan one)? WWI itself? Afterward?
Any thoughts?
During/after the French were defeated in the 1871 Franco-Prussian War, an Algerian tribal leader named Muhammed al-Muqrani allied with the sheik Haddad of the Rahmaniyya Sufi brotherhood and led an uprising that engulfed most of eastern Algeria. The rebels won several early victories before al-Muqrani's death in battle in 1871. The uprising "lost its momentum" and within a year the rebellion was put down. 1/4 of the Algerian populace was fined 35 million francs and lost 450,000 hectacres of agricultural land. The autonomy of the various religious brotherhoods was broken and the interior brought more firmly under French control.
I imagine the POD could be that al-Muqrani doesn't die when he does. Can the rebellion succeed? Or, if it is crushed later, what effects would it have? What effects would this French entanglement have on the "Scramble for Africa"? The crises leading up to WWI (esp. the Moroccan one)? WWI itself? Afterward?
Any thoughts?