Replacing fraternising regiments with outsiders broke the barricades’ supply lifeline.
Evidence
It was won, though the barricades dragged on through another forty-eight hours. Morale slumped as the rain continued to lash down. Men of the 25th Para division, in from the bled and less sympathetic towards the “ultras”, began to replace Dufour’s and Broizat’s regiments of the 10th. The fraternisation ended, contacts were slowly cut between the insurgents and their food-bearing kindred as the new troops placed their own tight cordon round them. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1121
Related
- The barricade fraternisation revealed the insurgency was exclusively European, excluding Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
- The para colonels deliberately avoided clashing with the barricade insurgents, not justifiable delay. (similarity 0.80)
- The Algerian army command split along loyalty lines when the putsch began. (similarity 0.80)
- Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.79)
- Only Algiers and the elite parachute regiments joined the putsch reliably (similarity 0.79)
- A.L.N. guerrillas still mounted attacks despite terrible conditions (similarity 0.79)
- The insurgents surrendered under honourable terms that spared them prosecution. (similarity 0.79)
- Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. (similarity 0.79)
- An Algeria cut off from France could not survive more than a fortnight (similarity 0.79)
- French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing. (similarity 0.79)
- French assimilation destroyed Algerian leadership cadres that could have been negotiating partners (similarity 0.78)
- Heavy-handed counterinsurgency sweeps drove the young into the maquis (similarity 0.78)
- The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.78)