When Soustelle departed in early 1956 the total of F.L.N. “regulars” had already grown to between 15,000 and 20,000 from the few handfuls which had launched the revolution on All Saints' Day 1954. They had killed 550 members of the security forces, gendarmes and soldiers included, while their own losses were reckoned at three thousand, of whom a number rated as “irregulars” killed in the course of the Philippeville uprisings.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 441