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    Colonial troops or colonial army refers to various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories. Such colonies may...
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    of Colonial Troops (Italian: Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali or RCTC) was a corps of the Royal Italian Army, in which all the Italian colonial troops were...
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    Troupes coloniales ("Colonial Troops") or Armée coloniale ("Colonial Army"), commonly called La Coloniale, were the colonial troops of the French colonial empire...
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    1900: the anchor is carried by the Colonial Infantry with their transfer to the Army. 1916: the Colonial Troops adopt the badge of an anchor over a flaming...
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    century British Army troops were being progressively withdrawn from colonial garrisons, with the intention being that colonial governments would replace...
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    attack Sudan and occupy the Kassala area. Indeed, the best Italian colonial troops were the Eritrean Ascari, as stated by Italian Marshall Rodolfo Graziani...
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    Corps Of Eritrean Colonial Troops were indigenous soldiers from Eritrea, who were enrolled as askaris in the Royal Corps of Colonial Troops (Regio Corpo di...
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    In French, the word is used only in reference to native troops outside the French colonial empire. The designation is still in occasional use today to...
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    to these events. The colonial troops referred to were soldiers from Senegal, Indochina, and Madagascar. The majority of colonial African soldiers were...
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    British main column consisting of approximately 1,800 British, colonial and native troops with approximately 350 civilians. The Zulus were equipped mainly...
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