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    France does not invade Algiers in 1830 or at least does a limited incursion and then withdraws

    Did they keep it up to the very end? Didn’t they bow to superior force and hang up the cutlass, Jolly Roger, and eye patch after serial bombardments in 1815, by the British, Dutch, and continental, and once again, American fleets? France didn’t invade them over slavery, but over a verbal...
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    France does not invade Algiers in 1830 or at least does a limited incursion and then withdraws

    I agree that the broad outlines you describe here of a later, lighter colonization would be fairly probable. I would add that with a later start in Algeria, there's more of a chance that Italy is the first mover in Tunis as well. There is a chance Spain gets the whole of Morocco. Or that France...
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