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Author Hill, Richard, 1901-1996.

Title A Black corps d'élite : an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history / Richard Hill and Peter Hogg
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 214 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Contents -- Illustrations, Maps, Plans -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Summary Concordance of Military Ranks obtaining in 1863-1867 -- Some Contemporary Ottoman Honorifics -- 1. Background to the Egyptian Sudanese Presence in Mexico -- 2. The Voyage to Veracruz -- 3. Acclimatization, 1863 -- 4. War in 1864 -- 5. War and Weariness in 1865 -- 6. Mutiny of the Relief Battalion in the Sudan -- 7. A Diplomatic Confrontation: the Government of the United States versus the Sudanese Battalion -- 8. War in 1866 -- 9. The Mission Completed
""10. The Voyage Home""""11. The Veterans from Mexico in African History""; ""Appendix 1 . The ContrÃ?le Nominatif (Battalion Nominal Roll) with Brief Records of Service""; ""Appendix 2. Other Sources Used""; ""Index""
Summary For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would better survive the tropical diseases that so terribly afflicted European soldiers. In both cases, the Africans did indeed fulfill these expectations. The mixture of cultures embodied by this event has piqued the interest of several historians, so it is by no means unknown. Hill and Hogg provide a particularly thorough account of this exotic interlude, explaining its background, looking in detail at the battle record in Mexico, and figuring out who exactly made up the battalion. Much in their account is odd and interesting, for example, the Sudanese superiority to Austrian troops and their festive nine-day spree in Paris on the emperor's tab. The authors also assess the episode's longer-term impact on the Sudan, showing that the veterans of Mexico, having learnt much from their extended exposure to French military practices, rose quickly in the ranks, then taught these methods to others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla Sūdana gnd
Subject France. Armée. Bataillon nègre égyptien -- History
SUBJECT France. Armée. Bataillon nègre égyptien fast
Frankreich Bataillon Nègre Égyptien gnd
Subject Sudanese -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY.
International relations
Sudanese
Mexikanische Expedition 1861-1867
Hilfstruppe
Fransen.
Krijgsmacht.
SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- European intervention, 1861-1867 -- Participation, Sudanese
France -- Relations -- Egypt
Egypt -- Relations -- France
Subject Egypt
France
Mexico
Mexiko
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hogg, Peter, 1911-2000.
ISBN 9780870139260
0870139266
0585370257
9780585370255
087013339X
9780870133398
9781628951813
1628951818