1942
– World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400
civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after
15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing
the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units
participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.