At the time, the French were consolidating their colonial ... enlisted together and equipped themselves as they liked. “The Zouaves were generally rich, generally flashy guys who liked standing ...

Shouting their war-cry, they rushed on the Kabyles, supported by the Volunteers of the Chart, or French Zouaves, thundering forth the Marseillaise; turning the pursuers into pursued, they covered ...

If even the famous French Zouaves were to march up Broadway behind the Seventh Regiment, they would cut a sorry figure in the eyes of the New-York public. But how little all this has to do with ...

Like an Indiana Jones movie, The Pope’s Legion starts moving from the get-go and doesn’t stop until the very last. The Papal Zouaves themselves lived life like this. As a besieged fighting ...

With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks ...

Collis as the Zouaves d'Afrique. Then in mid-August of ... based on the renowned North African and European Zouave regiments of the French army. The soldiers wore a Zouave uniform; so did Mrs ...

As the red-bloomered French Zouaves charged smartly up the slope, the barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812 muskets. Then machete-waving cavalrymen, led by a young Mixtec Indian named ...

Zouaves were Algerian soldiers in the French Army during the Crimean War, known for their native costume of loose, baggy trousers, sash jacket and fez hat, which was the Jackson Zouaves ...