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===1871 Kabyle revolt===
In 1830, the French army [[Invasion of Algiers in 1830|invaded]] and conquered the [[Ottoman Algeria|Beylik of Algiers]]. Afterwards, France colonized the country, setting up its own administration over Algeria. The withdrawal of a large proportion of the army stationed in [[French Algeria]] to serve in the Franco-Prussian War had weakened France's control of the territory, while reports of defeats undermined French prestige amongst the indigenous population. The most serious native insurrection since the time of [[Emir Abdelkader]] was the 1871 [[Mokrani Revolt]] in the [[Kabylia]], which spread through much of Algeria. By April 1871, 250 tribes had risen, or nearly a third of Algeria's population.<ref>Bernard Droz, « Insurrection de 1871: la révolte de Mokrani », dans Jeannine Verdès-Leroux (dir.), ''L'Algérie et la France'', Paris, Robert Laffont 2009, pp. 474–475 {{isbn|978-2-221-10946-5}}</ref>