Battle of Philippeville

Battle of Philippeville
	Part of Algerian War
Date	20 August 1955
Location	Philippeville, occupied Algeria
Result	See the Aftermath section
Belligerents
FLN	French Republic
Commanders and leaders
Youcef Zighoud; Salah Boubnider	Paul Aussaresses
Units involved
Wilaya II	41st Parachute Demi-Brigade
Casualties and losses
3,000 to 5,000 (French historian); 12,000 dead (FLN claim); 1,273 killed (French claim))	123

36°52′22″N 6°54′36″E / 36.87278°N 6.91000°E / 36.87278; 6.91000

The Battle of Philippeville, also known as the Philippeville massacre or the August Offensive, was a series of raids launched on 20 August 1955 on various cities and towns of the Constantine region by FLN insurgents and armed mobs during the Algerian War between France and the Algerian rebels. The raids, which mostly took the form of ethnic riots, resulted in the massacre of several dozens of European settlers, known as pieds-Noirs. The massacres were then followed by reprisals by the French army and pied-noir vigilantes, which resulted in the death of several thousand Muslim Algerians. The events of late August 1955 in the Constantinois region are considered to be a major turning point of the Algerian War.

^ Alcaraz, Emmanuel (2021). Histoire de l'Algérie et de ses mémoires: Des Orignies au Hirak (in French). Karthala Editions. ISBN 978-2-8111-2359-8.
^ Prakash, Amit (2022). Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925–1975. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-265425-0.

[1] Alcaraz, Emmanuel (2021). Histoire de l'Algérie et de ses mémoires: Des Orignies au Hirak (in French). Karthala Editions. ISBN 978-2-8111-2359-8.

[2] Prakash, Amit (2022). Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925–1975. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-265425-0.

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