[4] Marshal Bugeaud preceded this conquering expedition of Dellys by a proclamation on 14 April 1844 addressed to the chiefs and marabouts of the seven Kabyle tribes east of the Col des Beni Aïcha and the Issers.

[12] Bugeaud reiterated to them that he could not tolerate this state of affairs in Kabylia any longer and that he had decided to conquer this region and to march against these tribes if they did not come to find him at his place in the camp set up on the bank of the Oued Isser to capitulate.

[14] The marabouts of Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif and the other zawiyas immediately summoned all their tribes, the great landowners and the wealthy people who favored submission because they knew that Bugeaud was relentless, and they feared that the whole burden of the war would fall on them.

[15] On the contrary, the artisans and farmers demanded war with loud cries, and a middle ground was taken by deciding that before resorting to arms, they would send a letter and request a calling for justice from Governor Bugeaud in Algiers.

The Issers region had been abandoned by these goumis who rallied to Mahieddine because they had feared the incursions of the Kabyle mountain people who were preparing a serious night attack in the French camp blocked by bad weather.

[24] The Marshal had premeditated the occupation by sea of the small town and the port of Dellys to make it his supply point, and he had arranged to meet with the four thousand fatassins who had joined him, to the boats at the royal navy steamer.

[25] Bugeaud had based himself on information, revealing the existence of an easy road communication between the port Dellys and the site of Bordj-Menaïl, and it is thus that he decided to build in this last strategic position of Bordj Menaïel a central supply depot that the lightened French military columns would use to conquer the Flissas mountains.

[28] These preliminary operations of fitting out the future trading post of Dellys were carried out relentlessly, because the Marshal had to set off without ceasing to join his waiting camp at Bordj Menail, and then undertake a vigorous offensive against the Kabyles of Flissas.

[30][31] When the weather improved and the rain stopped in the valley of Oued Sebaou, General Bugeaud then left the Dellys bastion on the day of 10 May 1844 to set out again to face the threat of the Kabyles of the great tribe of Flissas north of Taourga mountain.

[33] Bugeaud's plans were to set up his headquarters at Bordj Menaïel to oversee the conquest of great Kabylia, but the Flissas had meanwhile entrenched themselves in four fortified villages belonging to the Amraouas and engaged in combat against the French.

[46] The city of Dellys having been pacified, Marshal Bugeaud then went up from the Mediterranean coast by the course of the Oued Sebaou towards the plain of Issers to then enter among the Amraouas who formed the last Kabyle tribe rebellious to colonial power.

[47] The Marshal's convoy then set up camp on the site of the dreaded battle of the previous 17 May, and representatives of the resigned and defeated Kabyle tribes flocked from all sides to pledge allegiance to the French victors.

[50] Marshal Bugeaud then boasted in his official report of having extended by this battle of more than twenty leagues to the east the radius of the suburbs of Algiers, and of having added to the French domination a fertile and populated territory, and to have conquered vast and good lands for the future and imminent European colonization.