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Mohamed Daghbaji
El Hamma (Gabès), Tunisia
Archival Overview
Legendary Tunisian fellagha guerrilla leader who led daring desert ambushes against French colonial troops across southern Tunisia and Libya, immortalized as an epic folk hero of armed resistance.
Biographical Record
Mohamed Daghbaji (c. 1885–1924) deserted from the French colonial army in 1915, disgusted by European imperial hypocrisy. Taking refuge in the desert dunes and canyons of southern Tunisia, he founded the 'Fellaghas'—indigenous armed bands fighting for freedom.
At the Battle of Khanget Guicha (1920), Daghbaji's desert marksmen ambushed and annihilated a French punitive column. Captured in 1922 across the Libyan border and condemned to death by a French military tribunal, he stood defiantly before the colonial firing squad in the public square of El Hamma on March 1, 1924, refusing a blindfold.
Key Life Milestones
Victory at Khanget Guicha
Led southern Fellagha fighters in an ambush that routed French colonial military columns.
Martyrdom before the Firing Squad
Executed in the village square of El Hamma, immortalized in enduring Maghrebi folk ballads.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialEl Hamma (Gabès), Tunisia