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ISLY , the name of a small See also:

river on the Moroccan-Algerian frontier, a sub-tributary of the Tafna, famous as the See also:scene of the greatest victory of the See also:French See also:army in the Algerian See also:wars. The intervention of See also:Morocco on the See also:side of Abd-el-Kader led at once to the See also:bombardment of See also:Tangier by the French See also:fleet under the See also:prince de See also:Joinville, and the advance of the French army of See also:General Bugeaud (1844). The enemy, 45,000 strong, was found to be encamped on the Isly river near Kudiat-el-Khodra. Bugeaud disposed of some 6500 See also:infantry and 1500 See also:cavalry, with a few pieces of See also:artillery. In his own words, the formation adopted was " a See also:boar's See also:head." With the army were See also:Lamoriciere, See also:Pelissier and other See also:officers destined to achieve distinction. On the 14th of See also:August the " boar's head " crossed the river about 9 M. to the N.W. of Kudiat and advanced upon the Moorish-See also:camp; it was immediately attacked on all sides by See also:great masses of cavalry; but the volleys of the steady French infantry See also:broke the force of every See also:charge, and at the right moment the French cavalry in two bodies, each of the strength of a See also:brigade, broke out and charged. One brigade stormed the Moorish camp (near Kudiat) in the See also:face of artillery See also:fire, the other sustained a desperate conflict on the right wing with a large See also:body of Moorish See also:horse which had not charged; and only the arrival of infantry put an end to the resistance in this See also:quarter. A general rally of the Moorish forces was followed by another See also:action in which they endeavoured to retake the camp. Bugeaud's forces, which cases without respect of See also:nationality. In all these years See also:Ismail had originally faced S. when See also:crossing the river, had now changed had governed with eclat and profusion, spending, borrowing, direction until they faced almost W. Near Kudiat-el-Khodra the raising the taxes on the fellahin and combining his policy of See also:Moors had rallied in considerable force, and prepared to retake See also:independence with dazzling visions of See also:Egyptian aggrandizement. their camp. The French, however, continued to attack in perfect In 1874 he annexed See also:Darfur, and was only prevented from See also:combination, and after a stubborn resistance the Moors once extending his dominion into See also:Abyssinia by the See also:superior fighting more gave way.

For this great victory, which was quickly See also:

power of the Abyssinians. But at length the inevitable See also:financial followed by proposals of See also:peace, Bugeaud was made duc d'Isly. crisis came.

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