Official naming of the Algerian conflict shaped military honors and refused war status

Evidence

On the way to Camus’s ravishing Tipasa then I noted how the typically France bandstands that once dominated the main square of small provincial towns were no longer there. In the heart of Algiers itself (a much less dour, perhaps more self-assured city, than I remembered it from 1973), on the Plateau des Glières which had provided the focus for the events of 1958, the hideous Monument aux Morts still stood. But — instead of removing it in its entirety — the Algerians had simply rendered over with cement its excessive bas-reliefs to colonial feats of arms. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1693 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people; Algeria preserved but blanked out French colonial war memorials rather than demolishing them — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1693; Algerian maquisards agreed to surrender weapons only if honor was preserved — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1184 (+1 more)

Related

• Algeria preserved but blanked out French colonial war memorials rather than demolishing them (similarity 0.90)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.86)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian maquisards agreed to surrender weapons only if honor was preserved (similarity 0.81)
• French Algérie served as a defensive bulwark against Soviet influence (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.79)
• The Battle of Algiers marked the end of any possibility of negotiated settlement (similarity 0.79)
• The 1940 defeat fatally undermined French prestige in Algerian Muslim eyes (similarity 0.79)
• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.79)
• French colonial war archives remained sealed while memories and witnesses faded. (similarity 0.79)
• French official archives still held Algeria war secrets long after the conflict (similarity 0.79)
• Army officers saw the Algerian war as both career security and a noble cause. (similarity 0.79)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.78)
• Algerian war sources even disagree over key meeting dates (similarity 0.78)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algeria preserved but blanked out French colonial war memorials rather than demolishing them #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1693