Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence

Evidence

Perhaps surprisingly, one American professor, stressing the equality and fairness with which the Algerians serving in the French army were treated, states categorically that “At no time from 1954 to 1962 did the numbers of Algerians fighting with the A.L.N. for independence match the number of Algerians fighting on the French side.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 793

Categorization

• QUESTION: Surprising and worth chasing: was this ever true at the height of the war? What counts as ‘fighting on the French side’?
• XREF: connects to: Algerians voted overwhelmingly for independence while European settlers abstained — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1615; Thousands of Muslim Algerians joined pied noir crowds in mass pro-France fraternisation — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 888

Related

• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.84)
• Algerians voted heavily for de Gaulle despite FLN abstention orders (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s independence had become irreversible by 1959 (similarity 0.83)
• Algerians voted overwhelmingly for independence while European settlers abstained (similarity 0.82)
• Most French officers in Algeria refused to fight the O.A.S. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim abstention voided the referendum’s Algerian mandate while Europeans voted no. (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian fighters in Tunisia outnumbered the infant Tunisian army. (similarity 0.82)
• Thousands of Muslim Algerians joined pied noir crowds in mass pro-France fraternisation (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.81)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.81)
• Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French (similarity 0.81)
• The self-determination speech widened the split between France and the army and settlers (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Algerians voted overwhelmingly for independence while European settlers abstained #corroborates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1615