علاقة الأمير عبد القادر بالأمريكان (1836-1837)‎ : الأسباب و الخلفيات

Abstract EN

The scarcity of potential negative attitudes by Bayat Tunisia and Ottoman power in sending support and assistance to the Emir Abdel Kader, obliged the latter to find other sources of supply and support the resistance against the French occupation.

Within this context, some contacts with the Consul of Britain in the first time and then Consul United States of America had been made in Tangier Morocco The proposition was to provide forboth the British commercial exchanges in one of the anchors (Tenes or Marsa Al Kebir), the two ports under the administration of the free Algeria, whereas for the Americans the proposition was more generous since he offered one of the foregoing anchors in exchange support and assistance to Prince Abdelkader in facing the French.

This article tries to shed light on the correspondence of Emir Abdelkader with the Americans at the beginning of French Algeria conflict, and this relationship that can be considered as the experience in the Algerian diplomatic history, so how was the American reaction to Emir Abdelkader’s correspondence ?