The 19th Army Corps ( 19e Corps d'Armée ) was a corps of the French army. In December 1870, the Tours delegation created the 19th Army Corps which was formed in Alençon . It was recreated by decree of the JO of August 13, 1874, it brought together the various military units of Algeria. It constituted the nucleus of the Army of Africa .
17-608: The corps appears to have been disbanded and superseded by the 10th Military Region by a decree of 18 February 1946. The Army Corps was located in the 19th Military Region of the Metropolitan Army which included the three départements of Algiers , Oran and Constantine , situated in modern day Algeria. The garrisons were principally based in Algiers , Mascara , Tlemcen , and Ain. Elements were also in Tunisia, forming
34-523: A cavalry regiment. The Oran, Constantine, and Algiers Divisions existed on 8 November 1942 as Operation Torch began; the corps was commanded by Lieutenant General fr:Louis Koeltz while the Algiers Division was under Charles Mast . The corps joined the Allies in late 1942 when Vichy French forces in north-west Africa went over to the Allies after 'Torch' and Hitler ordered ' Case Anton ,'
51-721: The Gallipoli campaign , and thereafter on the Salonika front , fighting alongside British troops in both theatres of war. Two battalions of Tirailleurs algériens were to see action in the middle east as part of the Détachement Français de Palestine et de Syrie that were deployed by France. The 85th African Infantry Division (85e DIA) was a Formation-A-Class reserve mountain division mobilized 2 September 1939 in Algiers. The 85th DIA occupied covering positions along
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85-589: The 'Tunisian occupation division', located mainly in Tunis , Bizerte and Sousse . The other twenty military regions of the Metropolitan army covered mainland France, hence the distinction this was the 'Army of Africa'. The Twenty-one army corps were established in December 1870, each with its own military region. The 19th Army Corps was stood down on 13 March 1871. The corps' Oran and Algiers divisions fought
102-654: The -'Aït Khabbash', a fraction of the Aït Ounbgui khams of the Aït Atta confederation in the late 1890s. The conflict ended by the annexation of the Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt complex by France in 1901. The Moroccan Division was one of the most decorated units of the French Army and all its regiments were distinguished by unit citations mentioned in despatches of the armed forces at the end of
119-550: The German and Italian occupation of Vichy France. The Corps order of battle in 1942 (as far as known) during this time was: As of 27 December 1942 : NB sont mentionnés : mountain artillery reinforcements (2 ou 3 ou 4 batteries ?) The 19th Army Corps fought as an Allied formation within the British 1st Army until the surrender of Axis forces in Tunisia. General fr:Henry Martin (général) appears to have been
136-629: The Libyan border until the end of May 1940 and was then shipped to Marseille by 3 June 1940. On 10 May 1940, the corps comprised the 85e DIA; the 181st African Infantry Division ; the 182nd African Infantry Division ; the 183rd African Infantry Division ; the East Saharan Front of division size; an armoured battalion, an infantry battalion (21e Bataillon d'Infanterie Légère d'Afrique, of the Battalions of Light Infantry of Africa ), and
153-404: The central département, also called Alger , became the prefecture of the eponymous département . The two other Algerian departments were Oran in the west and Constantine in the east. The département of Alger covered an area of 54,861 km (21,182 sq mi), and comprised six sub-prefectures : these were Aumale , Blida , Médéa , Miliana , Orléansville and Tizi-Ouzou . It
170-455: The conflict. The Moroccan Division was the only division to receive the battle honour of being decorated with the légion d'honneur throughout the course of World War I . The following troops were detached from the 19th Army Corps to serve in the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient . Two provisional regiments comprising a total of five Zouave battalions and one Foreign Legion battalion, saw action in
187-407: The creation of three new stand-alone departments. These were the département of Médéa , along with the coastal départements of Orléansville and Tizi-Ouzou formed respectively from the southern, western and eastern portions of the département of Alger. The very much truncated département of Alger now covered just 3,393 km , and was home to a population of 1,079,806. It was subdivided into
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#1732776049557204-444: The last commander of the 19th Army Corps (1944–46) and the first commander of the successor 10th Military Region, formed in accordance with the decree of 18 February 1946. Alger (department) 36°44′37.1″N 3°5′41.1″E / 36.743639°N 3.094750°E / 36.743639; 3.094750 The Department of Algiers ( French : département d'Alger , [depaʁtəmɑ̃ dalʒe] , Arabic : عمّالة الجزائر )
221-1220: The number "91" would be reallocated to Essonne , a new département comprising the southern suburbs of Paris.) After independence the department continued to exist until 1974 when it was split into Alger Province and Blida Province . Henry Martin (g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral) Look for Henry Martin (général) on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Henry Martin (général) in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
238-513: The population. The majority in the département of Alger declared themselves to be Muslims . In the city of Alger itself, however, 296,041 or 46% of the 645,479 people counted were declared to be non-Muslims. This placed Alger second only to the city of Oran in terms of the proportion of the population stating that they were non-Moslems. Non-Moslem appears to have been seen as a surrogate description for people of European origin, or for Algerian Jews. On 26 January 1956 population increases triggered
255-418: The two sub-prefectures of Blida and Maison-Blanche (modern Dar El Beïda ). The 1957 departmental reorganisation was marked by a change in the "suffix" number appearing on automobile license plates and in other places that used the same code. Until 1957 Alger was department number "91": after 1957 the much diminished département of Alger became department number "9A". (In 1968, under a law enacted in 1964,
272-538: Was a former French department in Algeria . The department of Alger existed between 1848 and 1974. Considered as a French province, Algeria was departmentalised on 9 December 1848, thereby operating according to the same administrative structure as metropolitan France . Three civil zones ( départements ) replaced the three beyliks into which the Ottoman former rulers had divided the territory. The principal town of
289-522: Was not until the 1950s that the Sahara was annexed into departmentalised Algeria, which explains why the département of Alger was limited to what is the north-central part of Algeria today. Until 10 January 1957, when the Sahara regions received their own administrative structure, these territories were administered by the département of Alger. The 1954 census recorded the stated religious affiliations of
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