The Papal Zouaves (Italian: Zuavi Pontifici) were an infantry battalion, later regiment, dedicated to defending the Papal States. Named after the French...

modelled upon them. The zouaves were among the most decorated units of the French Army. It was initially intended that the zouaves would be a regiment of...

dragoons. In 1861 an international Catholic volunteer corps, called Papal Zouaves after a kind of French colonial native Algerian infantry, and imitating...

Papal Zouaves, formed in 1861 to oppose Italian unification. Following defeat and abolition of the States by the Kingdom of Italy, four small Papal units...

Pontifical Zouaves, in the Papal States, under the name John Watson. An old friend, Henri Beaumont de Sainte-Marie, recognized Surratt and notified papal officials...

general who commanded the Army of the Papal States and was the arms minister during the reign of Pope Pius IX. He led Papal forces during the Battle of Mentana...

Capuchin order. The chapel also contains the tomb of the Papal Zouaves who died defending the Papal States at the battle of Porta Pia.[citation needed] Crypt...

mine under the Serristori barracks in Borgo, which was the seat of the Papal Zouaves, devastating the building and killing 27 persons. However, when the...

central Italy was divided into two states, the Papal States and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were...

the Quebec Home Guard, and Quebec Papal Zouaves. Quebec Home Guard rifles feature the Q.H.G. stamp, while the Papal Zouve Gras rifles are mostly only...

entered Rome (see capture of Rome). Forty-nine Italian soldiers and 19 Papal Zouaves died. Rome and the region of Lazio were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy...

suppressed. During the night of 22 October 1867, the group was surrounded by Papal Zouaves, and Giovanni was severely wounded. Enrico was mortally wounded and...

cronologia.leonardo.it (in Italian) The Papal Zouaves Papal States and all that : Part 1. Vatican Radio. Papal States and all that : Part 2. Vatican Radio...

The Franco-Belgian, Austrian and Irish battalions later joined the Papal Zouaves, an infantry regiment of international composition that pledged to aid...

Charette, commander of the Papal Zouaves, was made in 1885 by Lionel Royer. Fr. Joseph Michaud, the chaplain of the Papal Zouave volunteers of Montreal,...

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received a license to produce 5,000 Remington Rolling Block rifles for the Papal Zouaves; they later adapted the rolling-block design to produce double-barreled...

II.  Argentina  Canada  Quebec: In use by the Quebec Home Guard and Papal Zouaves (Both 11mm and later 8mm Lebel Mle 1914 Gras)  Belgian Congo: 15,000...

1846 – 2 December 1870) was a French aristocrat and soldier in the Papal Zouaves. Charles Honoré Emmanuel was born on 22 June 1846. He was the eldest...

Charette de la Contrie, French royalist, noble, military commander of the Papal Zouaves Balilla, Genoese boy who started the revolt against the Habsburgs Nino...

 1590 Flag of the Catholic League 1870 Banner of the Catholic French Papal Zouaves 1871 Revolutionary banner from the Paris Commune A plain red flag...

Americas—was elected to the papacy. Catholicism portal List of popes Papal States Papal Zouaves Index of Vatican City-related articles Roger Collins, Keepers...

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The United States Zouave Cadets (also known as the Chicago Zouaves and Zouave Cadets of Chicago) was a short-lived zouave unit of the Illinois militia...

years. In 1867, her superiors sent her to Italy in the service of the Papal Zouaves. After spending three days and three nights on the battlefield, she...

to the United Kingdom in September 1865 and then Rome. He joined the Papal Zouaves, but in April 1866, he was recognized and arrested on November 7, 1866...

of Spain. When back in Europe Alfonso decided to join Papal Zouaves. When on leave from the papal service, in the late 1860s Alfonso met the teenage infanta...

in North Brabant. Dutch Papal Zouaves and local Catholics gathered in Oudenbosch and left for Rome in 1868 to defend the Papal State against Giuseppe Garibaldi's...

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Pope Pius IX to defend The Vatican in 1860. A group of 14 returned Papal Zouaves, led by a missionary priest departed Montreal in 1871 and traveled by...