A French warning predicted that colonizing Algiers would ignite endless war with Africa.

Evidence

As long as you keep Algiers, you will be constantly at war with Africa; sometimes this war will seem to end; but these people will not hate you any the less; it will be a half-extinguished fire that will smoulder under the ash and which, at the first opportunity, will burst into a vast conflagration. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 63 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 63

Related

• A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war (similarity 0.91)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.78)
• The full truth of the Algerian war may now be permanently unknowable to anyone (similarity 0.78)
• Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 63