Sherif Boubaghla or Cherif Boubaghla (in
Arabic
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: الشريف بوبغلة , ''the man with the mule'') (full name Muhammad Al-Amjad bin Abd Almalik محمد الأمجد بن عبد المالك) was an Algerian military resistance leader who led a struggle against the
French colonial invasion in the mid-19th century.
Death
On December 21, 1854, Cherif Boubaghla was wounded by an Algerian spy who was working for France. He fell on muddy ground, then the spy killed him and cut his head and took it to the French ruler of
Bordj Bou Arréridj Province
Bordj Bou Arréridj ( ar, ولاية برج بوعريريج) is a province (''wilaya'') in northern Algeria around 200 km from the capital Algiers. It is considered as a crossroads between the east and west, the north and south.
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The French ruler fixed the head of Cherif Boubaghla to a pole to let the Algerian people see it. After this, the French took the head to France.
Return of his skull from France
On 3 July 2020,
Algeria
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received from France the remaining skulls of 24 resistance Algerian anti-colonial fighters. Among these, was the skull of
Sheikh Bouzian and the skull of resistance leader Mohammed Lamjad ben Abdelmalek, also known as ''Cherif Boubaghla'' .
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See also
* Invasion of Algiers in 1830
The invasion of Algiers in 1830 was a large-scale military operation by which the Kingdom of France, ruled by Charles X, invaded and conquered the Deylik of Algiers.
Algiers was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1529 after the capture of Algi ...
* Abdelkader al-Jazairi
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; ar, عبد القادر ابن محي الدين '), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Hassani El Djazairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggl ...
* Cheikh Bouamama
Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah ( ar, الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.
Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.
The resistance that he led in the ...
* Mokrani Revolt
The Mokrani Revolt ( ar, مقاومة الشيخ المقراني, lit=Resistance of Cheikh El-Mokrani; ber, Unfaq urrumi, lit=French insurrection) was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the conquest in 1830.
The r ...
* Algerian War
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
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The martyr Sharif Muhammad al-Amjad al-Hilali "Bubaghla"
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1854 deaths
1820 births
Algerian resistance leaders
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