Evacuation Day in Tunisia

France occupied Tunisia in 1881, as part of a partition plan of the Western powers, led by Great Britain and France, to colonise what we now call the "Third World". The French more or less occupied the Maghreb region of North Africa. Evacuation Day commemorates the eventual retreat of the last French soldiers from Bizerte on October 15th 1963, when French Admiral Maurice Amman left the city, announcing the end of the French colonial phase in Tunisia.

Tunisia won its independence on 20 March, 1956, following a popular and military resistance movement against the French occupation. However, French troops stayed in the country until Evacuation Day, which marks an important stage in Tunisia's history, as the day when the Tunisians regained full sovereignty over their land.