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Bouchareb first came across the story of the tests while researching Days of Glory, about the mistreatment of Northern African men who enlisted in the French army, and Outside the Law, following the trajectories of three Algerian brothers in France against the backdrop of the war of independence.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025
Another way of contextualizing the scale of the bloodletting is the war in Gaza, the bloodiest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists since the latter’s war of independence in 1948.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
The 2024 protests began after the government reinstated a policy that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans from the country’s war of independence.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
That list also includes a display at the National Museum of the American Latino that White House officials felt inaccurately portrays the Texas revolution as a defense of slavery, not a war of independence from Mexico.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
The same year saw the formation of New Spain’s High Court, or Audiencia, and other royal and religious institutions that would play a role in the government of Mexico until the war of independence in 1810.
—Patrick Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
Before the Namibian war of independence, which raged from the mid-1960s until the end of the 1980s, locals in the deserts of western Namibia knew how to live with elephants.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The current Mexican flag was officially adopted by the country in 1968, though variations have been used since Mexico’s war of independence from Spain in the early 1800s.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
Eventually, the people living in the colonies seek their autonomy and launch a war of independence against the people on Earth.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025
Another way of contextualizing the scale of the bloodletting is the war in Gaza, the bloodiest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists since the latter’s war of independence in 1948.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
The 2024 protests began after the government reinstated a policy that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans from the country’s war of independence.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
That list also includes a display at the National Museum of the American Latino that White House officials felt inaccurately portrays the Texas revolution as a defense of slavery, not a war of independence from Mexico.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
The same year saw the formation of New Spain’s High Court, or Audiencia, and other royal and religious institutions that would play a role in the government of Mexico until the war of independence in 1810.
—Patrick Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
Before the Namibian war of independence, which raged from the mid-1960s until the end of the 1980s, locals in the deserts of western Namibia knew how to live with elephants.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The current Mexican flag was officially adopted by the country in 1968, though variations have been used since Mexico’s war of independence from Spain in the early 1800s.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
Eventually, the people living in the colonies seek their autonomy and launch a war of independence against the people on Earth.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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