Polnac's Plan to Capture Algiers

The ministry also got going with a plan to bolster the reputation of the regime with a fun overseas adventure. They wanted to go capture algiers. Now this adventure was designed to satiate the cravings of an entire generation who had been raised on napoleon's imperial expansion. Everyone in the prime of their life here in 18 30 had spent their childhood, or adolescente or young adult hood, reading reports of the latest smashing victory of the french army.