Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Highlights At End Of Hair

72 - The Capture of Sfax: a Massacre forgotten by history (part 6)

These two gentlemen, Ben Ali and Ali Cherif Khlifa have been shot and are 40 kilometers from Sfax where they obviously consult the Arabs of the plain. Sharif Ali is a former gunner's Bey was said in Tunis that he had been at the Ecole Polytechnique, when he was a modest Gunner Arab ignorant, but very sensitive to the independence of Tunisians.

In Sfax, he was commandant, and as such, attendant to the operation of old guns, when the governor informed him of the treaty of Bardo. He at first refused to believe it, then he organized the revolt methodically and patiently.
The city of Sfax all the more deserved his exemplary punishment she has studied his case before it started.

It was found several guns Martini unloaded in the streets, and a gun Gras and even a master of the 93rd searching a house fell on a Turk he put on the wall and shot.

The high number of fatalities and the lack of purifying fears that corpses stay under a layer of earth does too slight to the troops of harmful emissions.

The soldier has the bare bisque for sustenance until now, a little meat from time to time, and mitigations that "commercialism" rushed in troops tightened sell horribly expensive.

The evil is the Parisian who leave today or within eight days from Liverpool, with a ship laden with canned goods, wine, cognac, sausage, herring, coffee and ice-making machines: he would make his fortune in a fortnight at the expense of all profiteers penny or without mesh, which sell drugs that horrible and rotten meat.

Two days after the capture of Sfax, the battleship Alma still has on board a hundred refugees, men, women and children, who fall back to earth on day 3.
The women were lying on one side with the children, men and the other for a few days before the arrival of the main wing, they just lived on bread and water.
Now the show was strange and sad to see. The sufferings are forgotten by everyone, and everyone will try to get back to work. However, security was not great, it is necessary that the six battalions that are still in Sfax in Sfax, and movements operating in the open field, ten kilometers from Sfax.

These men, today completed the number of about three thousand, are too precious to send them to Gabes. If the squadron is going to Gabes, as dictated by the necessities of an exemplary punishment, Admiral Garnault has enough of its twelve hundred sailors companies landing, protected, until the arrival of fresh troops, from France, by the gunboats wings. This

was taken of Sfax. The Arabs are really naive! They never wanted to believe in the internal decision-Sfax. Even in Kairouan, the holy city, where the barber is buried the Prophet, marabouts deny it, based on this that a projectile can carry more than two thousand meters, and the harbor of Sfax is unaffordable for our big battleships .

Some authors do not hesitate to mention that taking Sfax was a memory etched in dramatic trinkets of Looting Sfaxienne whose population has suffered. The French historian

"Martel" wrote: "The brave knights of Sheikh bravely opposed the French army that was much more than with guns and weapons forcing him into hiding in the barracks and warships 15 days away ..... and no end of ammunition and French reinforcements, Sfax and its surroundings could be a large tomb for French soldiers "After the Battle of Sfax Old Ali Bin Khalifa was found seriously injured in the leg and even as it headed defend Gabes.
Courage is not enough against technology and the strength of guns, Ben Khalifa still lose this battle but will continue his revolt from Tripolitania and inflict much damage to the army French but mostly it will anchor the blood of the revolt in the generations that come after.





Ben Khalifa - Khalifa bin Ali - Ali Ben Khalifa -

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