A Black Corps d'Elite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and Its Survivors in Subsequent Af

by Richard Leslie Hill, Peter Hogg, Peter C. Hogg

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087013339X
• ISBN13: 9780870133398
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"