The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army. They were initially recruited from Senegal...
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tirailleurs Senegalais are maintained by the 21eme Regiment d'infanterie de marine stationed in Fréjus, via the 4e Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais...
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Malagasy troops were recruited, and the Tirailleurs malgaches were formed along similar lines to the Senegalese Tirailleurs, forming part of the Troupes coloniales...
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Pierre Blanchet (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
his military service which he carried out in the 10e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais in Tunisia. Having followed the reserve officer cadet courses...
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Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais (Colonel Lucien Cariou). The third RCT comprised the 2ème Groupement de Tabors Marocains (Colonel Pierre Boyer de Latour)...
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Free France (redirect from Campagne de France (1944))
strong contingent of Tirailleurs Sénégalais brigades. The 1st Free French Division also contained a mixed brigade of French Troupes de marine and the Pacific...
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designated as 4th Colonial Tirailluers Regiment (French: 4e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais) by change designation. During the interwar period, the regiment...
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Marcel Bigeard (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
during three months, then was assigned the preliminary rank of Chef de bataillon (major) at a directorate.: 33 In 1944, after paratrooper training by...
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from Cameroon, and the recruitment of about 3,000 men from the Tirailleurs Sénégalais in Chad. Leclerc would then use Chad as a rear base for his operations...
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of Culture. Retrieved 6 January 2013. "Historique du 18e Bataillon de Tirailleurs Sénégalais" (PDF) (in French). Le Tableau D'Honneur. Retrieved 4 January...
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