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Which shows just how much of a moron the Algerian Dey was.

Morocco got the luxury of getting independence from France peacefully, as did Tunisia. Algeria did not because France (in hindsight) foolishly annexed it back in 1848 and thus couldn't afford to let Algeria go without an extremely bloody war. I applaud JFK for supporting Algerian independence...

Well, IMHO, Algeria should have gotten the Tunisia/Morocco treatment.

They didn't deserve 132 years of settler colonialism and a subsequent extremely brutal war of independence, though.

I think that the search for colonial prestige might compel France to engage in some colonization, whether in the Maghreb or somewhere else. If France won't be interested in colonizing Algeria, though, then maybe the Italians will be. A lot of pieds-noirs were of Italian descent anyway, so it...

What if France does not invade Algiers in 1830 or at least does a limited incursion and then withdraws? I suspect that this would be much better for the Algerian people, who are going to avoid getting outright annexed by France in this TL. Instead, Algeria's fate in this TL might resemble that...