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.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Illustrations, Maps, Plans
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Summary Concordance of Military Ranks obtaining in 1863-1867
  • Some Contemporary Ottoman Honorifics
  • 1. Background to the Egyptian Sudanese Presence in Mexico
  • 2. The Voyage to Veracruz
  • 3. Acclimatization, 1863
  • 4. War in 1864
  • 5. War and Weariness in 1865
  • 6. Mutiny of the Relief Battalion in the Sudan
  • 7. A Diplomatic Confrontation: the Government of the United States versus the Sudanese Battalion
  • 8. War in 1866
  • 9. The Mission Completed
  • ""10. The Voyage Home""""11. The Veterans from Mexico in African History""; ""Appendix 1 . The ContrÃ?le Nominatif (Battalion Nominal Roll) with Brief Records of Service""; ""Appendix 2. Other Sources Used""; ""Index""

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