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| Bizerte crisis | |||||||||
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| Part of the decolonisation of Africa and the spillover of the Algerian War | |||||||||
 Bizerte in 1961 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 France |
 Tunisia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Charles de Gaulle Maurice Amman |
Mohamed Ben Hamida El Bejaoui † | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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7,000 3 cruisers | 10,000[1] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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24–27 killed 100 wounded[2] |
630 killed 1,555 wounded multiple civilians killed | ||||||||
The Bizerte crisis (French: Crise de Bizerte; Arabic: أحداث بنزرت, romanized: ʾAḥdāth Bīzart) occurred in July 1961 when Tunisia imposed a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte, Tunisia, hoping to force its evacuation. The crisis culminated in a three-day battle between French and Tunisian forces that left 630 Tunisians and 24 French dead which eventually led to France ceding the city and naval base to Tunisia in 1963.
