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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I N ALGERIA, I OWE A SPECIAL THANKS to Mochtar Darrar, the former mayor and deputy-mayor for culture in Mascara, who guided me to locations where events described in the story took place. He shared not only his knowledge of the emirs life and local history, but the hospitality of a home warmed by the generous cuisine of his Polish wife. To Nouredine Rehab, Mascaras town librarian and an Abd el-Kader connoisseur, I am most grateful for his constant readiness to answer questions and provide materials. Bishop Henry Teissier opened up his personal library and shared with me new and useful materials I might have never discovered. He also was responsible for introducing me to Mohammed Ben Allal, a direct descendant of one of the emirs most devoted and feared caliphs. Mohammed provided valuable information about his ancestors character and tribal traditions. Thanks to Waciny Laredj and to Fouad Gouni for your insights and advice.

I am indebted to Nabil Kuwatly, Elias Bullad and Princess Badira for their gift of time spent with me, their introductions and specialized areas of knowledge while I was in Syria, and to Jafar Jazairy for taking me on a tour of the emirs residences in and around Damascus. No one should do research on Abd el-Kader today without consulting Professor Bruno Etienne in Aix en Provence. He generously shared bits and pieces of his encyclopaedic knowledge of the emirs life, as well as documentary sources and answers to a multitude of questions. I am also grateful to Bruno Etiennes collaborator, Francois Pouillon, for helping me sort through the politics and confusion of portraits and photographic images of Abd el-Kader. To the specialists at the Army Museum in Paris, my thanks for the fine points of uniforms and weaponry.

A big thank you to the Center for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia for a research grant, and to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for an opportunity to retire into a writers cocoon in the my final days of editing the manuscript. Thanks also for support from the Matheson Trust (UK) which promotes the comparative study of religion. My deep appreciation to Ed and Ruth Olson for introducing me to the Clayton County Archives in Elkader, Iowa where the emirs legacy to America continues to be nurtured. Many people read, critiqued and improved the manuscript before it fell into the good hands of Paul Cohen and Peter Lewis, my editors at Monkfish Publishing. I especially want to thank Carol Edwards, Zoe Rosenberg, Beth Gyrgy, Julie Portman, Tony Kiser, Anne Kiser, Sarge Cheever, Pat Curry, Al Fairchild, Scott Willis, Gay Barclay, Mohammed Khan Nasir, Reza Shah-Kazemi, Idriss Jazairy and Mireille Luc-Keith. Mireille was also my indispensable research assistant without whom I would have been overwhelmed by the voluminous French literature. Finally, I am profoundly thankful to my wife, Pam, for understanding that writing requires monkish and often anti-social ways.

CHRONOLOGY OF ALGERIAN AND WORLD EVENTS

1492	Spanish capture Granada, drive out last of Arabs and Jews
1576	Regency of Algiers established under the protection of the Ottoman Empire	French explorers arrive in North America
1779	Colonies declare independence from Britain
1789	Beginning of the French Revolution, formation of National Assembly	US Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1793	The Terror instituted to defend the Revolution
1798	Turks recapture Oran from Spain	US federalist Congress passes Alien & Sedition Acts permitting deportation of non citizens, criminalizes false or malicious criticism of the US government
1799	Napoleon Bonaparte invades Egypt and Syria
1801	Napoleon crowns himself emperor at Notre-Dame	The Louisiana Purchase concluded by Thomas Jefferson
1804	Napoleonic Code revolutionizes French and European societies
1808	Birth of Abd el-Kader	Tecumseh leads revitalization movement among Shawnees
1815	Defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo	Creek Indian war breaks out in US; Spain sells territories east of the Mississippi
1827	Dey Hussein strikes French consul with fly whisk
1830	General de Bourmont leads punitive expedition to capture Algiers, abdication of Charles X in favor of Louis-Philippe	US Congress passes Indian Removal Act, enabling forced deportation of Indians west of the Mississippi River
1831	Oran falls to French, Muhi al-Din, father of Abd el-Kader becomes reluctant leader of jihad
1832	Muhi al-Din cedes leadership of jihad to Abd el-Kader, seven tribes vow loyalty	Seminole Indian Wars; Andrew Jackson vs. Chief Osceola; Scorched-earth tactics practiced by US Army followed by forced relocation of Seminoles to Oklahoma
1834	Demichels Treaty makes the emir an ally
1835	Battle of Machta	Cherokees forced to leave territory, many perished on Trail of Tears
1837	Treaty of Tafna	First Afghan War British troops are massacred in retreat from Kabul; Victoria becomes queen of Great Britain
1839	Jihad resumes	First opium war forces Chinese to allow British to use ports; cede Hong Kong
1841	Bugeaud named governor of Algeria	International force under General Napier pushes Egyptians out of Syria
1843	Duke of Aumale captures emirs smala, Abd el-Kader becomes a fugitive under Moroccan protection	British troops conquer Sindh region of India
1845	France pressures Moroccan sultan to deny Abd el-Kader asylum	British troops conquer Sikh region of India; President James Polk champions Manifest Destiny
1846	French prisoners massacred by Mustafa Ben Thami	US declares war on Mexico, seizes New Mexico and California
1847	Abd el-Kader surrenders to General Lamoricire and the Duke of Aumale	Navaho wars begin in American southwest; Mexico city captured
1848	Abd el-Kader and entourage imprisoned at Toulon, moved to Pau again transferred to Amboise	California Gold Rush; British annex Punjab
1852	Abd el-Kader liberated by Louis-Napoleon	British go into Burma
1853	Abd el-Kader settles in Bursa, Turkey
1855	Abd el-Kader takes up permanent residence in Damascus	Hostilities involving Teton Sioux, retaliatory massacres on both sides
1860	Abd el-Kader intervenes to rescue Christians living in Damascus	Apaches go on warpath in Arizona
South Carolina secedes from the Union
1863	Abd el-Kader goes on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, ending with a visit to Alexandria where he meets with Masonic Lodge Pyramides	Indian uprisings in Minnesota
Navajo Indians long walk to Bosco Redondo
1869	Opening of Suez Canal, Abd el-Kader among dignitaries
1870	French defeated by Prussians at Sedan, ending the second Empire and image of French invincibility among Algerians	Nez Perce Indian Wars; defeat of Chief Joseph
1883	Death of Abd el-Kader

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