The Morice Line was an electrified, mined, and patrolled barrier across the Tunisian frontier.
Evidence
The nucleus of the Line was an eight-foot electric fence charged with five thousand volts; on either side of this was a fifty-yard belt liberally sprinkled with anti-personnel mines and backed up with continuous barbed-wire entanglements of the style of the First World War. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 814
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: US hoped its Tunisian mediation would open direct FLN-France talks — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 779; FLN units staged cross-border ambushes from Tunisian sanctuary — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 777; The Morice Line cut off the interior Wilayas from all exterior support. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 820 (+2 more)
Related
- The Morice Line cut off the interior Wilayas from all exterior support. (similarity 0.91)
- The French committed 80,000 of their best troops to defend the Morice Line. (similarity 0.91)
- Boumedienne rejected attritional frontal attacks on the Morice Line and won by waiting (similarity 0.86)
- FLN units staged cross-border ambushes from Tunisian sanctuary (similarity 0.83)
- US hoped its Tunisian mediation would open direct FLN-France talks (similarity 0.81)
- Foreign weapons flowed through Tunisia while the interior Wilayas asphyxiated without reinforcements. (similarity 0.80)
- Boumedienne replaced mass breaching with pin-prick harassment and low-profile interior warfare (similarity 0.79)
- French decolonization of Morocco and Tunisia handed the F.L.N. open frontiers (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The French committed 80,000 of their best troops to defend the Morice Line.
#expands(0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 814 - Boumedienne rejected attritional frontal attacks on the Morice Line and won by waiting
#corroborates(0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1263