• in 1920, three méhariste companies were organised in that country as part of the French Army of the Levant. During World War II méhariste companies, organised...
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    (Smara). He finds her empty of all people." (Le Rumeur (Guy): Le Grand Méhariste, Paris, Berger Levrault) Vieuchange (1988), pp. 2–3. Sources Vieuchange...
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    retrouvé ses racines à 30 métres de profondeur. Le Roy, Robert (1998). Méhariste au Niger: souvenirs sahariens (in French). Karthala Editions. p. 108....
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  • Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh Méhari, riding dromedaries used in Méhariste camel cavalry units Citroën Méhari, off-road compact SUV produced 1968–1988...
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    Camel archer Dromedarii (Roman) Imperial Camel Corps (British Empire) Méhariste (French) Somaliland Camel Corps Sudan Defence Force Tropas Nómadas (Spanish)...
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    a Méharistes Company was also created in 1921 in Palmyra during the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon under the designation of 1st Méhariste Company...
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    animosity between the Chaamba Arabs and the Tuareg. The newly raised Méhariste camel corps were originally recruited mainly from the Chaamba nomadic...
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    the camels were left to wander away into the desert. France created a méhariste camel corps in 1912 as part of the Armée d'Afrique in the Sahara in order...
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    corps called the Méhariste which was part of the Armée d'Afrique. It patrolled the Sahara using the Mehri camel. The French Méhariste camel corps was part...
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    The newly raised Compagnies Méharistes were originally recruited mainly from the Chaamba nomadic tribe. The Méhariste camel corps provided an effective...
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    for these units, modeled on those of the French officered Camel Corps (Méharistes) having prime responsibility for the Sahara. In full dress these included...
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  • and 'ectoplasm'. (The bedouins immediately take flight, but from French Meharistes (North African desert police) appearing behind the captain's back.) The...
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  • northeast of Massaguet. Garbit, François (1997). Carnets de route d'un méhariste au Tchad, 1936-1940. Sépia. p. 17. ISBN 978-2-84280-005-5. Retrieved 14...
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  • The Free French Camel Corps (French: Corps de Méharistes Français Libres) was a méhariste camel cavalry unit of the Free French forces, founded by among...
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  • Military Academy and graduated in 1930. He chose to serve in the Compagnies Méharistes in North Africa patrolling the Sahara. Langlais stayed in North Africa...
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  • population. At the time of a visit by a unit of the French camel corps (méharistes) in 1906, the village had between 900 and 1000 inhabitants. The Timbuktu...
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    soldier Édouard Cortier visited Taoudenni with a unit of the camel corps (méharistes) and published the first description of the mines. At the time the only...
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  • Professor Calculus in 1979. Lieutenant Delcourt is a French officer of the Méharistes (desert camel corps), who appears in The Crab with the Golden Claws. He...
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  • predominantly-MNLA fighters. At the time of the attack, the town was defended by a méhariste unit of the Malian National Guard, along with a component of the Malian...
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  • and marshalled his forces to take Kufra. A diversionary raid by mounted Meharistes colonial cavalry failed after it was betrayed by local guides, so Leclerc...
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    intended to kidnap de Foucauld. However they were interrupted by two Méharistes of the French Camel Corps. One startled bandit (15-year-old Sermi ag Thora)...
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    after they had completed their original terms of service. Camel mounted Meharistes plus Compagnies Sahariennes (desert infantry and later mechanised troops)...
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    twenty companies garrisoning various places and three detachments of méharistes (camel cavalry), in Borkou, Tibesti and Ennedi. Attacking Kufra would...
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    de la Marine became the Troupes Coloniales in 1900 and photographs of mehariste (camel corps) troopers taken in the 1950s show anchor badges even in the...
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    were first formed in 1923 by a conversion of dromedary mounted troops, Méhariste, to patrol between the Italian forts in the Libyan Sahara desert in Italian...
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  • (Druze, Circassian and mixed Syrian), three companies of Camel cavalry (méharistes), engineer, armoured car, and support units. In addition to the regular...
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    West Africa French Colonial Forces French Foreign Legion Goumier Harkis Mehariste Senegalese Tirailleurs Spahi Tonkinese Rifles Hawthornthwaite, Philip...
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    Bigeard and native Méharistes whom defected over to the National Liberation Front of Algeria (FLN). On October 17, 1957, a group of Méharistes (native camel...
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  • Maisons-Laffitte 1952 – Prosper 1953 – Eole 1954 – James Stuart 1955 – Méhariste 1956 – Méhariste 1957 – Romantisme 1958 – Ming 1959 – Marivaux 1960 – Sweater 1961...
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    Khyber Rifles King's African Rifles Kikuyu Home Guard Lascar Lascarins Mehariste Military of Macau under Portuguese rule Natal Native Contingent Philippine...
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