Insurgents escaped capture by retreating into mountain strongholds

Evidence

Even with such allies, the victories against the insurgents were only partial. Attacked in one area of the plains, insurgents spread out as they retreated, “burning and bringing terror” to surviving plantations. Insurgents frequently retreated before they could be captured or massacred, creating new camps higher in the mountains, which became the “boulevards of liberty.” Although French officers continually declared they had killed several “important chiefs,” there always seemed to be others to take the place of the dead. In fact, despite the campaigns against them, the insurgents operated with impunity in many parts of the colony. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 514

Categorization

• QUESTION: The phrase ‘boulevards of liberty’ describing the mountain camps is striking — worth tracing how mountain geography became the structural key to the survival of the revolution into later phases, when Leclerc and then the independence armies face them.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 514
• XREF: connects to: French offensives forced insurgents to the mountains but could not defeat them — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 506; Kabyle insurgents fragmented into small units that escaped the army comb initially — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1017

Broader Connections

• Kabyle insurgents fragmented into small units that escaped the army comb initially #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1017