France and Algeria (1842)

[mohovitch]

The Times, Monday, Apr 11, 1842 from the Quotidienne

At some point it says: "...commanders must disguise events,swell out advantages,dissemble losses.In fact tell lies, and this, it must be confessed, is most admirably done. Hence it is that France remains profoundly ignorant of the situation of Algeria- a country where she keeps up to 80000 men always engaged with tribes who are badly attacked. she is burdened with a war without moral character; is exposed to horrible reprisals, and is wasting her strength in useless victories. More than 50000 of our soldiers have perished on this african territory since 1830..."