The Algeria Fiasco

The Algeria Fiasco is the name commonly ascribed to a series of events in July 1891, which culminated in President Creosote of the Creosotian Republic being imprisoned in French Algeria for 4 weeks, just 6 months after The First Jeremboah War. Creosote was arrested on charges of illegal poaching during a hunting trip in Northern Africa, which had started in Morocco, but progressed over the border in search of "rich pickings".

At the time the event received widespread mockery in Britain and France, as well as some suppressed joking in the Republic itself. It did little to help President Creosote's reputation as a statesman, and is thought to have contributed to personal tensions between himself and the French government for years to come. It is commonly seen as a key moment The Phoney Jeremboah War.