<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwzw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Resistance">French Resistance</a> coup in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Algiers">Algiers</a>, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vichy France">Vichyist</a> XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Torch" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Torch">Operation Torch</a> in Algiers.