Battle of Bougafer

Mount of Saghro in the high Atlas: theater of colonial military operations

The battle of Bougafer or Battle of Saghro took place on 13 February 1933 in Morocco and where the French colonial forces fought against the combatants of the Aït Atta tribes.

Entrenched in the Bougafer mountains, the Ait Atta tribes resisted for more than forty days and did not surrender after the aerial bombardments of the French aviation parked in Ouarzazate and a severe blockade. Captain Henry de Bournazel (called "The Man in Red" or "The Knight of Red" because of the color of his tunic) and which has been marked by exceptional battles during several battles in Morocco (such as that of El Mares in May 1923 in Imouzzer Marmoucha), found his death in combat.

Development

This counter-response was already known with the attempts of intimidation in particular by the Thami El Glaoui, great fall of the Eastern Atlas in 1918, but they were in vain, since the resources of the resistance were far from being annihilated. In Bougafer, France had deployed 80,000 troops to end this last dissident and irreducible bastion of the Ait Atta. Bibliography and

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