The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army. They were initially recruited from Senegal...

Algerian Tirailleurs (8th Regiment of Tunisian Tirailleurs in 1921) 13th Regiment of Algerian Tirailleurs 1st Regiment of Senegalese Tirailleurs (from the...

The 2nd Regiment of Senegalese Tirailleurs was a regiment composed of African infantry formed by the French Army. It was created by decree on 23 April...

subjects in Africa, had given the tirailleurs favored treatment as prisoners of war. This ostensibly good treatment of tirailleurs in prisoner of war camps was...

The 16th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment (16e Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais, 16e RTS) was a Senegalese Tirailleurs regiment of the French Army. It...

in the city of Chasselay, Rhône including almost 200 graves of Senegalese Tirailleurs murdered during the Chasselay massacre of World War II. From 19...

The 24th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment (24e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais, 24e RTS), was a Senegalese tirailleurs regiment of the French army which...

inventory of French historic monuments on 18 June 1987. The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) was a corps of colonial infantry in the French...

after the Allied landings at Normandy during Operation Dragoon, Senegalese Tirailleurs soldiers are sent to help liberate France from German occupation...

losses were experienced due to disease in colder weather. When the Senegalese Tirailleurs were deployed to France in 1914 for the First World War an informal...

1st Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment 6th Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment [fr] Colonial Infantry Regiment of Morocco III/6th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment [fr]...

of working-class Moroccan civilians in Casablanca committed by Senegalese Tirailleurs in the service of the French colonial empire. The attack was instigated...

deployed large numbers of colonial troops (including the famed Senegalese Tirailleurs) in Metropolitan France, was quickly overwhelmed and forced to retreat...

The 1st Tirailleur Regiment (French: 1er régiment de tirailleurs, 1er RTir) is a mechanized infantry unit of the French Army, created in 1994 under the...

Before World War II, Senegalese in France were a huge minority. The first Senegalese people in France were mostly Senegalese Tirailleurs who served France...

Laverdure's column consisted of six infantry companies of Algerian and Senegalese Tirailleurs, a French detachment of colonial infantry, a party of irregular...

was a French general and colonial administrator. He created the Senegalese Tirailleurs when he was governor of Senegal. Faidherbe was born into a lower-middle-class...

1886, he transferred in that rank to the Senegalese Tirailleurs eight days later. He served with the tirailleurs in Senegal from 5 August that year, joining...

Banania still uses a face with large red lips derived from the Senegalese Tirailleurs as its emblem. The licorice brand Tabu, popularized by Perfetti...

Father & Soldier (French: Tirailleurs) is a 2022 French-Senegalese war-drama film directed and co-written by Mathieu Vadepied, starring Omar Sy, Alassane...

white Frenchmen, although there were some black deputies, such as the Senegalese Blaise Diagne, who was elected in 1914. By the end of World War I the...

African soldiers in the Chasselay area, murdering about captured 100 Senegalese Tirailleurs. They are today buried in the Tata of Chasselay. The main organisation...

preparatory school in Senegal from 1954, then joined the First Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment. He saw action in Cameroon in 1960, and was wounded there...

village of Loukoua-Nzoko in French Congo. In 1925, he joined the Senegalese Tirailleurs and participated in the Rif War. In 1926, Matsoua founded Amicale...

(known as the “Somali Traditions Company”), integrated into the Senegalese tirailleurs battalion of the French Somali Coast. In 1947, the Somali company...

thanks to the actions of the 2nd battalion of the 13th regiment of Senegalese tirailleurs, commanded by Jean Gilles. The 9th DIC became one of the components...

7th Machine Gun Battalion of the U.S. 3rd Division supported the Senegalese Tirailleurs in holding the German advance at Château-Thierry, in hard house-to-house...

sultan's speech, French colonial forces in Casablanca, specifically Senegalese Tirailleurs serving the French colonial empire, carried out a massacre of working-class...

his black soldiers that once recruited by the French have created Senegalese Tirailleurs and transforming the African populations within its sphere into...

Fréjus became the main centre for hivernage (wintering) for the Senegalese Tirailleurs. The town also contained segregated hospitals with images of African...