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Treaty of Tafna
North Africa [1837]
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Abdelkader
- In Abdelkader: Early career
…General Bugeaud to sign the Treaty of Tafna (1837), which further increased his territory and made him master of the whole interior of Oran and the Titteri, with the French having to be content with a few ports.
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Bugeaud
- In Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, duke d’Isly
…with whom he negotiated the Treaty of Tafna (1837), which delimited the territories of the two parties. Critical of the traditional cumbersome French military tactics used in Algeria, Bugeaud successfully developed particularly harsh techniques more suited to conditions of irregular warfare. In 1841, when he returned to Algeria as governor-general,…
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