Nigel Falls

‘After you, sir’: France and Germany prepare to shoot the dove of peace, on the cover of Puck, 4 Oxtober 1911. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

The German Panther at Agadir

The Agadir Crisis of 1911 was one of several incidents that raised international tensions between Germany and France in the years before the First World War.

The bombardment of Algiers, 1830. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. Public Domain.

The French Conquest of Algiers

How France became caught up in an unexpectedly complicated imperial adventure in 1830, eventually adding almost all of what is now Algeria to its empire.