"French Colonial Infantry" Topic
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| The Gray Ghost | 04 Jan 2009 1:24 p.m. PST |
What would you use for interwar French Colonials, not the African troops. |
| joekano | 04 Jan 2009 3:46 p.m. PST |
Here are interwar French: link |
| anleiher | 04 Jan 2009 8:22 p.m. PST |
Those are great figures joekano…now if only they were available in 15mm. |
| Plynkes | 05 Jan 2009 4:08 a.m. PST |
Foreign Legion (and Zoauves, Goumiers, etc.) technically aren't Colonial Infantry, as the Armée d'Afrique was a corps of the Metropolitan Army. But I fear that is splitting hairs. Don't know what the Colonial Infantry looked like between the wars, but I do know they switched to khaki mid-way through the Great War and I think they stuck with it. |
| The Gray Ghost | 05 Jan 2009 2:03 p.m. PST |
I thought they turned all the Marines and Battalions d'Africa into colonial infanrty |
| Plynkes | 05 Jan 2009 2:48 p.m. PST |
The Armée d'Afrique was the army corps of the Metropolitan army that was stationed in North Africa. It consisted of the Foreign Legion, the Spahis, Zoauves, Goumiers, Tirailleurs Algeriens, etc. It was in existence until France lost her North African colonies in the 1960s. The Colonial Army was something totally separate, and not part of the Metropolitan Army, consisting of European and native troops that garrisoned the other colonies. In its ranks were the European Troupes Coloniales (formerly the Troupes de Marine as you suggest), the colonial artillery and such native units as the Tirailleurs Sénégalais and the Tirailleurs Indochinois. That's my understanding, anyway. A little bit confusing, isn't it. |
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