President de Gaulle Chooses Withdrawal
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France
was defeating the insurgents in Algeria militarily
- repeatedly. So why did the French give up and withdraw
from Algeria? The war in Algeria began in 1954. In
the early 1960s France's
Charles de Gaulle, a conservative-centrist, president
since 1959, believed that France's war in Algeria could
be won militarily but that trying to do so was not
the best alternative. He negotiated an end to the
war and won the wrath of rightists who believed that
the best alternative was a military victory rather
than surrender. | |
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Narrative: War in Algeria and Independence
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