Turcos Some representations of sharpshooters in the early days of conquest. The first
represents the ancestor of Turcos the
Kouloughli . Those are mestizos that the Turks have had with indigenous women. Before the conquest they formed a large part of the infantry in the Turkish garrisons. Leaving the latter they are generally
rallied to the French, often to avoid the vengeance of Arab and Kabyle. The outfit he
are is not uniform but we can see that milk them inspire the future held "Turkish" which will definitely
arrested in 1852 for the creation of the regiment! Their weaponry is flint, from stocks most unfashionable of the time, 1777 or the year
IX! O nly
the pouch is provided by the state, and often the
Kouloughli prefers indigenous manufacture of lighter.
The first battalion was formed and called
"battalion of sharpshooters
native of Algiers and Titteri " in 1831.
parallel, a Turkish company
Oran is created. Similarly
Yusuf Bey up to a battalion
Bone .
In 1833, a Turkish company
Mostaganem born, and a battalion of Constantine
Decree 1837 of 07 December
1841 created three battalions of infantry
natives. The first includes the old unit
Algiers Titteri and a battalion is created
Oran and Constantine in
the three amalgams all existing companies or battalions.
To be held: a Constantine Mostaganem and the soldiers were wearing blue will stay later. A Algiers, General Bugeaud fixed holding the same cup as other battalions but green (color of the commander of thinking sensibly encourage enlistments ). The green dress is shown in the illustration follows.
Here is a watercolor of Captain Marshall shows that keeping Mostaganem, gray cloak with hood replaces the infantry. We note that the equipment is still indigenous manufacturing. Cons by the blue jacket is already welt daffodil, and the red belt! Finally
keeping adopted by creation of the regiment, by order of 14 February 1853 and will not change until 1945!
I added this gouache of a native officer, can not say it enough, if a body of colonial society offers little more than equal to the natives, c ' is the army or the beginning of the conquest of men will see the same officers general officers ( Yusuf ).
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