ISLY

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ISLY , the name of a small river on the Moroccan-Algerian frontier, a sub-tributary of the Tafna, famous as the

scene

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

of the greatest victory of the French army in the Algerian wars. The intervention of Morocco on the side of Abd-el-Kader led at once to the bombardment of Tangier by the French

fleet

FLEET

under the prince de Joinville, and the advance of the French army of General Bugeaud (1844). The enemy, 45,000 strong, was found to be encamped on the Isly river near Kudiat-el-Khodra. Bugeaud disposed of some 6500 infantry and 1500 cavalry, with a few pieces of artillery. In his own words, the formation adopted was " a boar's head." With the army were

Lamoriciere

LAMORICIERE, CHRISTOPHE LEON LOUIS JUCHAULT DE (18o6–1865)

, Pelissier and other

officers

OFFICERS

destined to achieve distinction. On the 14th of August the " boar's head " crossed the river about 9 M. to the N.W. of Kudiat and advanced upon the Moorish-camp; it was immediately attacked on all sides by

great

GREAT

masses of cavalry; but the volleys of the steady French infantry broke the force of every charge, and at the right moment the French cavalry in two bodies, each of the strength of a brigade, broke out and charged. One brigade stormed the Moorish camp (near Kudiat) in the face of artillery fire, the other sustained a desperate conflict on the right wing with a large

body

BODY

of Moorish horse which had not charged; and only the arrival of infantry put an end to the resistance in this

quarter

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth
part
- PART
)

. A general rally of the Moorish forces was followed by another action in which
they endeavoured to retake the camp. Bugeaud's forces, which cases without respect of nationality. In all these years Ismail had originally faced S. when crossing the river, had now changed had governed with eclat and profusion, spending, borrowing, direction until they faced almost W. Near Kudiat-el-Khodra the raising the taxes on the fellahin and combining his policy of Moors had rallied in considerable force, and prepared to retake independence with dazzling visions of Egyptian aggrandizement. their camp. The French, however, continued to attack in perfect In 1874 he annexed Darfur, and was only prevented from combination, and after a stubborn resistance the Moors once extending his dominion into Abyssinia by the superior fighting more gave way. For this

great

GREAT

victory, which was quickly power of the Abyssinians. But at length the inevitable

financial

FINANCIAL

followed by proposals of peace, Bugeaud was made duc d'Isly. crisis came. A national debt of over one hundred millions

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