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Their inhabitants, and a section of them intended to defeat the latter, so a section of them took refuge with the governors, and merged into their settlements, and another section intended the sons of Aloush. When the sons of Aloush refused to return the defectors, war broke out between the two tribes; the first attack by the Barabish on Basklo failed, and they were forced to withdraw after suffering losses, and clashes continued without interruption until January 1877, the date on which peace was concluded, and the Barabish returned a number of servants whom they had plundered, but they resumed their raids after a few years, around 1885, and besieged Basklo; the sons of Aloush, with a flanking maneuver on the Barabish camps in Azawad, managed to force them to lift the siege, and the mutual raids continued until the arrival of the French. On the other hand, after many conflicts, the sons of Aloush and the neighboring Kalnasr tribe eventually reached an understanding, but we see from the account of Lieutenant FAIDHERBE (7), governor of Senegal from 1854-1861, that during his presence in the province in 1861, an Eklad army of 500 men, cavalry and camel riders armed with spears, attacked the sons of Aloush and the people of Bourdeh, but they suffered a crushing defeat, and raided some crushing defeat, and raided some crushing defeat, and raided some crushing defeat, and raided some crushing defeat, and raided some disgracefully at the hands of Arabs armed with firearms, and only 70 of them managed to return safely to their homeland. Peace was concluded between the two parties, and the men of the sons of Aloush could pass with their weapons with all confidence through the lands of Kalnasr, on condition that they did not plunder. Since the sons of Aloush were a professional warrior tribe, they never allowed the whims of the tribes coming from the north or west, the Zeghiat, the sons of Belsbeia, and the sons of Ghilan, and they waged fierce wars against the invaders who caused destruction in the region. They generally emerged victorious from these clashes, and in any case, on several occasions after our occupation, they did not hesitate to join these invaders and attack us. The sons of Aloush continued to wage bloody wars against Mashatuf, and prevented them from establishing a foothold in the eastern coastal region; nevertheless, when the Barabish besieged the village of Baskno, Mashatuf sent reinforcements to the sons of Aloush consisting of 400 rifles, and this aid was not useless, but the truce between them and Mashatuf was short-lived. In 1905, Mashatuf descended to the north (8) and raided some of the camps of the sons of Aloush; (7) He is the first General to have transformed relations between (8) Rather, to the south. from 1863-1865 paved the way for the occupation.