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    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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    Algerian Tirailleurs (8th Regiment of Tunisian Tirailleurs in 1921) 13th Regiment of Algerian Tirailleurs 1st Regiment of Senegalese Tirailleurs (from the...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The 16th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment (16e Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais, 16e RTS) was a Senegalese Tirailleurs regiment of the French Army. It...
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    in the city of Chasselay, Rhône including almost 200 graves of Senegalese Tirailleurs murdered during the Chasselay massacre of World War II. From 19...
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    The 24th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment (24e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais, 24e RTS), was a Senegalese tirailleurs regiment of the French army which...
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  • after the Allied landings at Normandy during Operation Dragoon, Senegalese Tirailleurs soldiers are sent to help liberate France from German occupation...
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    inventory of French historic monuments on 18 June 1987. The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) was a corps of colonial infantry in the French...
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    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...
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    1st Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment 6th Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment [fr] Colonial Infantry Regiment of Morocco III/6th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment [fr]...
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    of working-class Moroccan civilians in Casablanca committed by Senegalese Tirailleurs in the service of the French colonial empire. The attack was instigated...
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    deployed large numbers of colonial troops (including the famed Senegalese Tirailleurs) in Metropolitan France, was quickly overwhelmed and forced to retreat...
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    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...
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    Laverdure's column consisted of six infantry companies of Algerian and Senegalese Tirailleurs, a French detachment of colonial infantry, a party of irregular...
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  • Before World War II, Senegalese in France were a huge minority. The first Senegalese people in France were mostly Senegalese Tirailleurs who served France...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Banania still uses a face with large red lips derived from the Senegalese Tirailleurs as its emblem. The licorice brand Tabu, popularized by Perfetti...
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    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...
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    African soldiers in the Chasselay area, murdering about captured 100 Senegalese Tirailleurs. They are today buried in the Tata of Chasselay. The main organisation...
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  • Father & Soldier (French: Tirailleurs) is a 2022 French-Senegalese war-drama film directed and co-written by Mathieu Vadepied, starring Omar Sy, Alassane...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    preparatory school in Senegal from 1954, then joined the First Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment. He saw action in Cameroon in 1960, and was wounded there...
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    (known as the “Somali Traditions Company”), integrated into the Senegalese tirailleurs battalion of the French Somali Coast. In 1947, the Somali company...
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    sultan's speech, French colonial forces in Casablanca, specifically Senegalese Tirailleurs serving the French colonial empire, carried out a massacre of working-class...
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    his black soldiers that once recruited by the French have created Senegalese Tirailleurs and transforming the African populations within its sphere into...
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    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...
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  • The Senegalese Tirailleurs, led by Colonel Alfred-Amédée Dodds, conquered Dahomey (present-day Benin) in 1892...
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