Mokrani Revolt

Mokrani Revolt
Part of French conquest of Algeria
Tribes under the Mokrani revolt. Source : Djilali Sari, L'insurrection de 1871, SNED, Alger, 1972, p.29.
Date 1871–1872 Location French Algeria Result French victory
Belligerents
Algerian rebels: Kingdom of Ait Abbas Sultanate of Tuggurt Algerian Zawiyas Algerian peasantry	France: France French Algeria Native auxiliaries
Commanders and leaders
Cheikh Mokrani † Boumezrag Mokrani Cheikh El Haddad  El Hadj Bouzid † Soliman IV Cheikh Boumerdassi Cheikh Boushaki Cheikh Zamoum	Louis Henri Léon Lallemand Alexandre Fourchault Théodore Périgot
Units involved
100,000 Kabyle cavalry, and 100,000 other fighters[1]	Army of Africa (86,000 men) plus native auxiliaries
Casualties and losses
≈ 2000 dead[2]	2,686 dead[3]

The Mokrani Revolt (Arabic: مقاومة الشيخ المقراني, lit. 'Resistance of Cheikh El-Mokrani'; Berber languages: Unfaq urrumi, lit. 'French insurrection') was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the conquest in 1830.

The revolt broke out on March 16, 1871, with the uprising of more than 250 tribes, around a third of the population of the country. It was led by the Kabyles of the Biban mountains commanded by Cheikh Mokrani and his brother Bou-Mezrag el-Mokrani [ar] and El hadj Bouzid who was the cousin of Mokrani as well as Cheikh El Haddad, head of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order.