The Algiers weather broke the barricades’ morale as effectively as de Gaulle’s rhetoric.

Evidence

As the Chartists had been turned back from marching on the House of Commons by rain, so too the weather in Algiers now reinforced de Gaulle’s cause. On the barricades his speech was heard during a thunderstorm, which, says de Gaulle, “seemed symbolic”. Nothing is more miserable than Algiers under wintry rain, and now the skies opened to deluge the wretched insurgents with cataracts of icy water; huddled sodden under umbrellas or raincoats stretched out to make a tent, crouched in doorways or under trees, they listened to de Gaulle in a wet misery of defeat. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1120

Categorization

• XREF: The Chartists-rain parallel echoes how chance events shaped other revolts discussed through the book, e.g., the storm that scattered the Armada in an earlier read. — connects to: De Gaulle’s voice, not force, was the decisive factor that broke the barricades insurrection.; Four factors broke the Barricades insurrection, led by de Gaulle’s speech — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1139; De Gaulle’s June 1958 Algiers rhetoric was deliberately ambiguous, hiding his pessimism — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 926

Related

• Four factors broke the Barricades insurrection, led by de Gaulle’s speech (similarity 0.89)
• The barricades insurrection proved the decisive failure of the Algérie française cause. (similarity 0.87)
• De Gaulle’s voice, not force, was the decisive factor that broke the barricades insurrection. (similarity 0.86)
• De Gaulle’s speech rallied France through timing and tone, not new content (similarity 0.85)
• De Gaulle’s broadcast failed to move the Algiers insurgents. (similarity 0.82)
• Delouvrier’s withdrawal from Algiers demoralized the insurgents (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle’s intransigent refusal to yield to the riots proved strategically correct (similarity 0.80)
• French metropolitan opinion rallied behind de Gaulle against the Algiers insurgents (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s personal authority rallied France against the Algerian insurrection without any new concession. (similarity 0.78)
• Algerian ultras refused to reckon with metropolitan France’s reaction (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Four factors broke the Barricades insurrection, led by de Gaulle’s speech #expands (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1139
• De Gaulle’s June 1958 Algiers rhetoric was deliberately ambiguous, hiding his pessimism #complicates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 926