Tag: Algeria

Podcast

3rd July 1940: British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

3rd July 2023
Tagged as: Algeria, Axis Alliance, Battle of the Atlantic, Britain, Churchill, France, Mers-el-Kebir, Navy, Nazi, Second World War, Ship, Vichy

British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.

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22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres

22nd April 2022
Tagged as: Algeria, Chemical warfare, First World War, France, Germany, Science, War, Ypres

Over five thousand French Algerian, Moroccan and territorial troops died within ten minutes of the chlorine gas being released.