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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grouping personnel from mainland France belonging to the Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais du Tchad, as well as other elements from mainland France or from...
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started with a small raid on Murzuk by eleven men of the Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais du Tchad (RTST) and two troops of the British Long Range Desert...
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created two regiments during the war and named them after the territory (Régiment de marche du Tchad and Régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais du Tchad). Soon...
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Allied Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Free French Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais du Tchad (RTST). Other actions included the Siege of Giarabub...
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d'Ornano [fr], were 5,000 tirailleurs (riflemen) of the Senegalese Light Infantry Regiment of Chad (Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais du Tchad (RTST) in twenty...
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organizing a detachment of the Senegalese Infantry Regiment of Chad (Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais du Tchad, RTST), destined to be sent as reinforcements...
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Michel Arnaud (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
Faya-Largeau in Chad and attached to the Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais du Tchad (RTST), and on 26 August sided with de Gaulle, like all soldiers of the RTST...
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was known as the 1er Régiment Mixte de Marche de Cavalerie de Levant. In 1918 a "marching regiment" of Moroccan spahis (Régiment de Marche des Spahis Marocains)...
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Free France (redirect from Campagne de France (1944))
350 Spaniards in the 9th company of the 3rd Battalion of the Régiment de Marche du Tchad made up mainly of Spanish Republican exiles) would be there the...
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On May 1, 1923, the regiment was designated as 4th Colonial Tirailluers Regiment (French: 4e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais) by change designation...
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