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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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    The most numerous of these, after the "tirailleurs algériens" noted above, were the "tirailleurs sénégalais" (who were recruited from all of the French...
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    France, by French forces on the morning of 1 December 1944. These Tirailleurs Sénégalais units had been recently liberated from prisoner camps and after...
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    enrolled in the French colonial army in 1820 and the company of the tirailleurs sénégalais was formed in 1857. They fought for France in both World Wars. The...
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  • after two days of combat at Aubigny, 50 captured tirailleurs of the 24e Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais were executed by German troops, the first in what...
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    de Tirailleurs Soudanais 1900: Renamed 2nd Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais 2 September 1939: Renamed 2nd Régiment Mobile de Tirailleurs Sénégalais 1...
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    Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Free French Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais du Tchad (RTST). Other actions included the Siege of Giarabub (now...
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    colour of the original. It was intended to serve as a mosque for the Tirailleurs sénégalais, the West African colonial troops in the French Army who were posted...
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    Retrieved 23 December 2018. Pitroipa, Abdel (14 July 2010). "Ces tirailleurs sénégalais qui ont combattu pour la France". L'Express (in French). Retrieved...
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    9th Colonial Infantry Division contained a strong contingent of Tirailleurs Sénégalais brigades. The 1st Free French Division also contained a mixed brigade...
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    75 Modèle 1897 Fusil de 8 mm de tirailleurs indochinois modèle 1902, Berthier Fusil de 8 mm de tirailleurs sénégalais modèle 1907, Berthier Fusil d'infanterie...
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    Retrieved 2023-05-07. Fournier, L. (1934). Historique du 2e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais : 1892 – 1933. p. 61. Retrieved 30 November 2018. Legassick, Martin...
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    (except for Madagascan troops, known as the tirailleurs malgaches) were known as Senegalese tirailleurs, regardless of their origin. These troops were...
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    the first RCT had three battalions from the 13ème Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais (West African troops in French service) commanded by Colonel Jean...
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    Annexes (1924) Annexe n° 423, pp. 705–706 Dez, Bastien (2008). "Les tirailleurs " sénégalais " à l'épreuve de l'hiver". Regards sur... la Première Guerre Mondiale...
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    Christophe Morhange, ISBN 978-1-887829-77-9 Dez, Bastien (2008). "Les tirailleurs " sénégalais " à l'épreuve de l'hiver". Regards sur... la Première Guerre Mondiale...
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    ISBN 9780521857994. Fisher 2014, p. 105. "Mémoires des tirailleurs sénégalais: "Un tirailleur Sénégalais en Picardie - Histoire d'une stèle"". France Culture...
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    already been contracted to provide aircraft, and there were 4,000 Tirailleurs sénégalais in Djibouti that could be shipped to Indochina in case of need....
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  • film " Tirailleurs ", avec Omar Sy, débute ce lundi à Neufmaison". Ouest-France (in French). 23 August 2021. "Omar Sy en tirailleur sénégalais dans un...
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    Serie B, n° 3–4, 1986–1987 Rodolphe Alexandre, La Révolte des tirailleurs sénégalais à Cayenne, 24–25 février 1946, 1995, 160 pages ISBN 2-7384-3330-8...
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    soldiers'". The Guardian. Branach-Kallas, Anna (26 February 2021). "Tirailleurs Sénégalais, Savagery, and War Trauma in At Night All Blood is Black by David...
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    Asante, p. 235. Fournier, L. (1934). Historique du 2e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais : 1892 – 1933. p. 61. Retrieved 30 November 2018. Ajayi, J.F. Ade...
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    the military troops of French West Africa, known in French as the Tirailleurs Sénégalais. The Mossi people have organised their society in an original hierarchic...
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    liberation. On the eve of the Second World War, five regiments of Tirailleurs Sénégalais were stationed in France in addition to a brigade based in Algeria...
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  • large number of reorganisations. The army's heritage includes the Tirailleurs sénégalais. In 1978, Senegal dispatched a battalion to the Inter-African Force...
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    French historic monuments on 18 June 1987. The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) was a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army...
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    (French: Tata sénégalais de Chasselay) is a cemetery in the city of Chasselay, Rhône including almost 200 graves of Senegalese Tirailleurs murdered during...
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    as Tirailleurs sénégalais, Tirailleurs malgaches, Tirailleurs indochinois, etc. according to the name of the colony of origin. Tirailleurs sénégalais was...
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  • in the French Army and spent four years in the 15e Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais in Oran, French Algeria. He was discharged for having a "character...
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  • September 2023. Fournier, L. (1934). Historique du 2e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais : 1892 – 1933. p. 61. Retrieved 30 November 2018. Wikimedia Commons...
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