In view of the pattern that the war was to assume, there was something tragically symbolic in the fact that among the seven to die on that first day would be a loyal caid and a “liberal” French teacher.

SEED: The symbolic symmetry of a loyalist and a liberal dying on day one could frame an essay on how colonial conflicts consume both sides' bridges to a middle path.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 275