Composition
The colonial troops "the Colonial" which depend on a single General Staff, consists of two main types of units:
- Infantry and French colonial Colonial Artillery between 1900 and 1958 called "Colonial White" and composed mostly of enlisted metropolitans.
- native sharpshooters, excluding North Africa (Senegalese riflemen, sharpshooters Madagascar, Indo-Chinese sharpshooters) trained "subjects" French colonies controlled by French officers. The term "Senegalese infantry"is a generic term given to all infantry units recruited in black Africa.
- While it is sometimes used broadly to mean the troops recruited in all French colonies, and by extension, also include troops from Africa (Zouaves, Chasseurs d'Afrique, Spahis, Riflemen Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian artillery North African Foreign Legion and services for Indigenous Affairs), which find their origin in the expeditionary force of 1830 in Algeria, and were united in the XIX Army Corps in 1873, the latter forming a well distinct from the colonial troops and should not be confused with them.
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