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Zouaves

a variety of light infantry in the French colonial armies. It was recruited from the inhabitants of North Africa and from French volunteers who lived there. In the beginning of the 20th century, it was made a compulsory military service.

The first two battalions of Zouaves were created in Algeria in 1830 to conduct a colonial war in North Africa. Three regiments were formed in the middle of the 19th century, four in 1914, and six in 1939. The Zouaves participated in various wars that France fought in the 19th and 20th century, including the Crimean War of 1853–56, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, and World Wars I and II. The troops had a special uniform that included a jacket, a waistcoat, wide trousers with a wide belt, and a fez or turban. The hired rifle (infantry) units in the army of the Turkish sultan were also known as Zouaves. There was one such brigade of Zouaves in the beginning of the 20th century.

Detachments of Zouaves of death, consisting of brave suicide fighters, were among the insurgent forces in the Polish Uprising of 1863–64.

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She describes the use of khaki from mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth and the relationship of the British to indigenous Nigerians in regard to uniforms for the latter, when footwear was not issued and various items of their uniform, such as long shorts, the Zouave jacket, and the fez, exoticized them as well, certainly clearly differentiating them from British military.

Fashioning Africa: Power and Politics of Dress by Eicher, Joanne B. / African Arts

He joined the French army during World War I, was assigned to a crack regiment, the legendary Third Zouaves.

A Zouave's journey; recollections of a footsoldier in the 37th ... by Reference & Research Book News

He had some fair bumper form in his early days and showed battling qualities to defy the challenge of Zouave by the narrowest of margins.

Johnston's looking hot by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

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