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Sidi Fredj
Sidi Fredj, known to the French as Sidi Ferruch, is a small peninsula on the Mediterranean coast about 25 km west of Algiers. On 14 June 1830 a French army of more than 30,000 men under General de Bourmont landed there, defeated the dey's forces at Staouéli and advanced on Algiers, which capitulated on 5 July, beginning the French conquest of Algeria.
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