A Black Corps d'Elite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and Its Survivors in Subsequent Af
This is the story, recorded in detail for the first time, of an exotic incident in African-American relations in the mid-nineteenth century. Secretly, on the night of 7-8 January 1863, an under-strength battalion of 446 officers and men with one civilian interpreter sailed from Alexandria, Egypt in a French troopship for service with the French expeditionary force in Mexico. They were being dispatched by the ruler of Egypt at the urgent request of Emperor Napoleon III to replace French troops who were dying of yellow fever in unacceptable numbers in France's ill-fated 1863-1867 campaign to establish an imperial presence in Mexico. Most of the…
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Weitere Autoren: Hogg, Peter
- ISBN: 978-0-87013-339-8
- EAN: 9780870133398
- Produktnummer: 9053714
- Verlag: Michigan St Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 214 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.2 cm 544 g
- Gewicht: 544
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