A Black corps d'élite [[electronic resource] ] : an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history / / Richard Hill and Peter Hogg

• Autore: Hill Richard <1901-1996.>
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 972/.07
• Soggetto topico: Sudanese - Mexico - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico History European intervention, 1861-1867 Participation, Sudanese; France Relations Egypt; Egypt Relations France
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HoggPeter C
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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 ; Appendix 1 . The Contrôle Nominatif (Battalion Nominal Roll) with Brief Records of ServiceAppendix 2. Other Sources Used; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A Black corps d'élite
• ISBN: 0-87013-926-6; 0-585-37025-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455460403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II