LEADER 03280nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910826426603321 005 20240416204751.0 010 $a0-87013-926-6 010 $a0-585-37025-7 035 $a(CKB)111004368747144 035 $a(EBL)1757802 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112771 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138816 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112771 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10098457 035 $a(PQKB)11178242 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338183 035 $a(OCoLC)48138173 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12640 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338183 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514573 035 $a(OCoLC)923249707 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368747144 100 $a19940627d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Black corps d'e?lite $ean Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history /$fRichard Hill and Peter Hogg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aEast Lansing $cMichigan State University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87013-339-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aAppendix 1 . The Contro?le Nominatif (Battalion Nominal Roll) with Brief Records of ServiceAppendix 2. Other Sources Used; Index 330 $a 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 unkn 606 $aSudanese$zMexico$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aMexico$xHistory$yEuropean intervention, 1861-1867$xParticipation, Sudanese 607 $aFrance$xRelations$zEgypt 607 $aEgypt$xRelations$zFrance 615 0$aSudanese$xHistory 676 $a972/.07 676 $a972.07 700 $aHill$b Richard$f1901-1996.$01691173 701 $aHogg$b Peter C$0243662 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826426603321 996 $aA Black corps d'e?lite$94067370 997 $aUNINA