The last Punic war, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Tunis, past and present : with a narrative of the French conquest of the regency.Broadley, Alexander Meyrick
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The last Punic war, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Tunis, past and present : with a narrative of the French conquest of the regency.
Broadley, Alexander Meyrick
Tunisia -- History; Tunisia -- History -- French occupation, 1881-1956
June 8th.—The three brigades shift their positions:—Vincendon to Kasr
Tautia, Caillot to Dar el Melah, and Galland to El Guemaïr.
June 9th.—No movement of importance.
June 10th.—Galland at El Guemaïr, Caillot and Vincendon at Berzigue.
June 11th.—The Brigade Caillot goes to Lag-Haf. The Brigade Galland at
El Guemaïr works on the road from Ain Drahan to Ben Metir. The Brigade
Vincendon completes the road from Ain Drahan to Tabarca.
June 12th.—No movement.
June 13th.—The Brigade Caillot goes to Oun el Ouch.
June 14th.—The Brigade Vincendon quits Kasr Tautia for Tabarca and
commences embarkation. The Brigade Caillot moves to Ain Drahan.
June 15th.—The transports with the Brigade Vincendon quit Tabarca for
Marseilles.
June 16th to 21st.—The portions of the other brigades not destined to
garrison Tabarca, Fernána, and Ain Drahan, embarked for France. The
staffs of General Forgemol and the other Generals broke up on the
termination of the campaign. I reach Tunis by way of Fernána and Souk-
el-Arba.”
The following is an exact copy of the report presented to the Bey of
Tunis by General Younes El Dziri, Governor of Beja, and the Kahia Allela
Jouini “on the subject of the recent events in the Khamír country:”—
“There was a sort of partnership established between some individuals of
the Khamír tribes and others belonging to the neighbouring Algerian clan
of the Nahads. The object of this association was the sale by the
Khamírs of goods stolen by the Nahads, and the subsequent division of
the proceeds, and _vice versâ_. On a dispute arising as to a division
which the Khamírs had failed to make, a quarrel ensued in which a Khamír
lost his life. This business was communicated to the ministry (of the
Bey) by the Governor of Beja, who had conferred on the subject with the
Commandant of the French troops at Roum-el-Souk. The affair was to all
appearances arranged, when, on the 29th March, the French Commandant
invited some of the Sheikhs of the Khamírs to meet him at Roum-el-Souk,
for the purpose of a further discussion about it. They accordingly
repaired thither in company with some Sheikhs of the Tunisian tribe of
Beni-Mazens. The Commandant told them to give up, by way of hostage, the
“tents” of the chiefs of the Ouled Cedra subdivision (“fraction”) of the
Khamírs, and to pay an indemnity of 4702 francs for two Nahad tents,
which had been burned during the above-mentioned disturbance, telling
them at the same time that if they did not comply with his orders they
would be attacked on the following day. The Khamír Sheikhs answered that
they could not give the required hostages without the consent of the
Bey, and that they were not prepared to pay for the burned tents unless
the ‘price of blood’ arising from the death of the Khamír in the same
dispute was taken into consideration, and unless both parties were
allowed to take an oath, as is usual in cases where no agreement can be
come to. The Sheikhs added that this arrangement had been agreed to by
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