Const an tine (Conquest of Algeria)

This fortified city in Eastern Algeria, which, under Hadji Ahmad, had held out for six years against French rule, was invested by the French, 7,000 strong, under Marshal Clausel, in the autumn of 1836. Having no breaching pieces, Clausel e ayed an a ault, but was repulsed with a lo of 2,000 men, and abandoned the siege. In the following year General Damrémont sat down before Const an tine October 6, with 10,000 men, and on the 12th, a breach having been effected, an a ault was on the point of taking place, when Damrémont was killed. His succe or, General Valée, however, took the place by storm on the following day.