Mejba Revolt

Mejba Revolt
Date 1864-1865 Location Tunisia Result Victory of Tunisia
Belligerents
Tunisian rebels Rahmaniyya	Tunisia Support:  France  Britain  Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ali Ben Ghedhahem † Ahmed ben Hussein Mustapha ben Azouz	Muhammad III Sadiq Mustapha Khaznadar Kheireddine Pacha Farhat Gaied Jbira † General Hussein
Strength
~10,000	5,000 Royal troops 2,000 Zwawa mercenaries loyal tribes

The Mejba Revolt (1864–65) was a rebellion in Tunisia against the doubling of an unpopular poll tax (the mejba) imposed on his subjects by Sadok Bey.^[1] The most extensive revolt against the rule of the Husainid Beys of Tunis, it saw uprisings all over the country and came close to prompting military intervention by Britain and France.^[2] The revolt was suppressed with great brutality and the government became ever more seriously indebted to foreign creditors, backed by European governments, until it was finally unable to resist French occupation in 1881.^[3]