Algeria Product:Postcard Aberdeen manager Alex Ferguson looks

Aberdeen manager Alex Ferguson looks at a map of Europe as he prepares to takes his side into the European Cup Winners Cup quarter finals for the first time

Duleep Singh (1838-1893) was the Maharaja of Lahore and King of the Sikh Empire

Jefferson Davies was elected president of a new Confederacy but the Northern States refused to recognise the right to secession

the army that had accompanied Napoleon III to Italy made a triumphal entry into Paris

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Algeria Product:Postcard Aberdeen manager Alex Ferguson looksAlgeria, 1957. The Algerian War, also known as Algerian War of Independence, took place between 1954 and 1962 and led to Algerian independence from France.