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...
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Zouaves (Italian: Zuavi Pontifici) were an infantry battalion, later regiment, dedicated to defending the Papal States. Named after the French zouave...
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The Zouave is the subject of several sketches and paintings made by Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France in June 1888. The pieces range from close up oil...
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The Little Zouave (French: Au p'tit zouave) is a 1950 French comedy drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring François Périer, Dany Robin and...
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Rochebrune). He based his formation on the French Zouaves, in which he had served during the Crimean War. The Zouaves of Death were highly regarded for their bravery...
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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...
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A Zouave jacket is a short open fronted jacket with long sleeves, similar to that historically worn by the Algerian Zouave infantry of the French Army...
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11th New York Infantry Regiment (redirect from Fire Zouaves)
unit was known alternately as the Ellsworth Zouaves, First Fire Zouaves, First Regiment New York Zouaves, and U.S. National Guards. The unit was among...
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Wilson Zouaves: where they went, what they did, and what they saw in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865. New York, 1891 Billy Wilson's Rough Zouaves: 6th...
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USS Zouave was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was needed by the Navy to be part of the fleet of ships to prevent...
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The 8th Zouaves Regiment (French: 8e Régiment de Zouaves , 8e R.Z) was an infantry unit of the French Army. Created in 1914, the unit was designated as...
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4th Regiment of Zouaves Joint 4th Regiment of Zouaves and Tirailleurs 7th Algerian Infantry Regiment 8th Infantry Regiment 8th Zouaves Regiment 9th Regiment...
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5th New York Infantry Regiment (redirect from Duryee's Zouaves)
the Zouaves of the French army. The enlisted men's uniforms of the 5th New York's were modeled closely on those of French Zouaves: a dark blue Zouave jacket...
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The Zouave is an 1856 stone statue by French artist Georges Diebolt, which has been sited on the Pont de l'Alma in Paris since the 1850s. The statue is...
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zouaves, six of chasseurs d'Afrique, four of spahis and two of the Foreign Legion. In Morocco nineteen battalions of tirailleurs and nine of zouaves were...
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9th New York Infantry Regiment (redirect from Hawkin's Zouaves)
the American Civil War. It was also known as the "Hawkins' Zouaves" or the "New York Zouaves." In April 1861 with the secession of the Southern States...
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2nd Zouaves Regiment disappeared and was replaced, as the infantry of the division, by three independent battalions, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Zouaves, forming...
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69th Infantry Regiment (New York) (redirect from Meagher's Zouaves)
assault in the First Battle of Bull Run, the regiment, along with the Fire Zouaves, formed the rear-guard of the Union Army and protected it as it made its...
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The emperor added a regiment of Zouaves to the Guard in 1855, selected from the three existing regiments of Zouaves first raised in 1830. In its original...
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62nd New York Infantry Regiment (redirect from Anderson Zouaves)
Volunteers (Anderson Zouaves). Katcher & Youens (2013), pp. 25, 36, 40. Sources "A soldier of the 62nd New York Volunteers (Anderson Zouaves)". Facebook - Don...
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John Surratt (category Papal Zouaves)
Surratt would later serve for a time in the Ninth Company of the Pontifical Zouaves, in the Papal States, under the name John Watson. An old friend, Henri...
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exotic to van Gogh. In a letter, he described it as a foreign country: "The Zouaves, the brothels, the adorable little Arlésienne going to her First Communion...
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Pont de l'Alma (section The Zouave statue and flooding)
both of the two piers was decorated with a statue of military nature: a Zouave and a grenadier by Georges Diébolt, and a skirmisher and an artilleryman...
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the American Civil War a number of volunteer regiments, designated as zouaves, also wore seroual breeches, though these were usually of chasseur design...
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example to others and military missions to Japan and the emulation of French Zouaves in other militaries added to this prestige. However, an expedition to Mexico...
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p. 86-7. Larcade, Jean-Louis. Zouaves & Tirailleurs volume 2. p. 544. ISBN 2-9515171-1-4. Larcade, Jean-Louis. Zouaves & Tirailleurs volume 2. p. 550...
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regiments (Zouaves, Tirailleurs, and Spahis) wore wide, red fezzes with detachable tassels of various colors. It was an off-duty affectation of the Zouaves to...
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dragoons. In 1861 an international Catholic volunteer corps, called Papal Zouaves after a kind of French colonial native Algerian infantry, and imitating...
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Collis initially raised only a small company of men calling them the "Zouaves d'Afrique" which served while attached to other regiments. They saw action...
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French zouaves and Russian soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand combat at Malakhov Kurgan...
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