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Title: Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Thomas Cook Ltd
Subjects: Algeria -- Guidebooks Tunisia -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : T. Cook & Son (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o such an extent that France and othercountries decided to interfere, and, notwithstanding the friendlyrelations of Louis XIV. and the Dey Hadj Mohamed Laz, aFrench fleet, and later on an English fleet, were sent to theTunisian coast to suppress the ravages of the pirates and toput an end to Christian slavery (see p. 295). During the Husseinist period the new rulers saw the neces-sity of instituting reforms, and under Ahmed Bey and hissuccessors improvements were effected—a Constitution waspublished, a plan of the country was made by French engineers,the Carthage aqueduct was repaired to convey water to Tunis.But all this cost money, the finances of the Regency becamehopelessly involved, disputes with French subjects and con-tractors constantly occurred, and on April 4, 1881, it wasdecided that France should enter Tunis; on April 24 troopscrossed the frontier, and on May 12 the so-called treaty ofBardo (see pp. 316, 317), was signed in the palace of Kasres-Said (or Ksar Said). *****
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