A Black corps d'élite : an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history

A Black corps d'élite : an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history /

For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa i...

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Main Author: Hill, Richard, 1901-1996
Other Authors: Hogg, Peter, 1911-2000
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
France. > Armée. > Bataillon nègre égyptien > History.
Sudanese > Mexico > History > 19th century.
Mexico > History > European intervention, 1861-1867 > Participation, Sudanese.
France > Relations > Egypt.
Egypt > Relations > France.
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