L' Armée d'Afrique - Marches militaires

 At last on Youtube. I have this album on vinyl - it's good but I never got round to digitising it but now someone has. Different sleeve.

L' Armée d'Afrique - Marches militaires

• Marche des Tirailleurs ( Menichetti )
• Chant des Tabors ( Alain Romans )
• Marche de la Légion Etrangère ( Wilhem )
• Les Régiments d'Artillerie d'Afrique ( Gossez )
• Marche du 21e R.T.A. ( Menichetti )
• Les Spahis de Lecocq ( Gossez )
• L'Armée d'Afrique passe ( Dhomat )
• Les Africains ( Boyer )

• Extrait du discours de réception à l'Académie Française

Présentation du Maréchal Juin par lui-même

Charge des Chasseurs d'Afrique à Floing ( Gossez )

• Les Bataillonnaires ( Naggiar - Paul Semler-Collery )
• Marche du 1er R.S.M. (Gossez )
• Tadjine & Mechoui ( Loup )
• Marche du 3e R.S.A. ( Gossez )
• Marche du 7e R.T.M. ( André Semler-Collery )
• Cavalerie d'Afrique ( Verdi )
• Marche des Zouaves ( E. Marin )
• Sidi Brahim ( Porot )

Bavaria Miniatures French Zouaves

 

Solfèrino 24 juin 1859

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Zouaves: The First and the Bravest Paperback –1996 by Michael J. McAfee

This is a well regarded work. Bumph reads

 Warfare in the nineteenth century was no less bloody than today, yet people of the Victorian era saw it as a romantic adventure. Their vision of the battlefield was largely formed by the art of the period. Normally, early nineteenth century military art was limited to depictions of immense fields of battle, miraculously devoid of smoke and confusion, with any action centering around a prominent general on horseback. The most common of military art, created for the masses, consisted of cheap lithographs, crudely drawn and even though filled with blood and gore, curiously unrealistic. As a result, the Victorian mind was able to view war through a veil of romanticism and hide from sight those aspects it preferred not to see. As warfare was then associated with glory, patriotism and heroism, it was only natural that the warrior should share in those virtues. The wretched, often brutal, life of the common soldier was ignored as was his lowly status in society. Only the most visible, colorful or romantic of soldiers were allowed to intrude upon society in the Victorian age. In England, the proud Guards regiments and romantic Highlanders were the chosen representatives of the British soldier. They were the ideal types. In France it was the Chasseurs and the Zouaves who received similar public notice. They became the stereotypes for bravery and to a degree their own lives as soldiers were enhanced by this attention. None were more heroic in lithographs or paintings than the Zouave. He seemed the beau-ideal of a solider, as General Geroge B. McClellan, of Civil War fame, described him. The French Zouaves enjoyed a reputation of being recklessly brave on the battlefield, as though warfare was merely a game and their lives simply the table stakes. Their conduct off the battlefield was equally notable, for they tended to be undisciplined, resourceful foragers who provided for their personal comfort in any manner which was practical and the liberation of goods meant little to men who could expect to die in their next combat. Yet, there were not brigands. They were members of an elite unit with an esprit de corps which bound them together as a family, with the regimental commander, known as Father among the Zouaves, as the family head. They were also bound together by their distinctive dress. The Arab-inspired short jacket, baggy trousers and fez were key parts of their identity. The Zouave became a Victorian ideal of a soldier. He was not afraid to die in combat for he looked upon battle as a field of honor. Yet, he was human and capable of emotion, whether rage on the battlefield or deep sorrow at the death of a comrade. The end of the Victorian era and it died in the muddy Flanders fields in 1914 with thousands of brave soldiers also menat the end of the Zouave. He was a product of Victorian sentimentality and could survive the twentieth century in the same form. The French Army retains unites of Zouaves, but they no longer wear distinctive uniforms. In America Zouaves lasted into the 1950s in the form of an American Legion drill team, even appearing on the Ed Sullivan show in their twilight years. But the true Zouave, the gallant rascal of the nineteenth century, is gone forever.

Zouave Vincent Van Gogh 1888

 

Civil War Zouaves

 Civil War Zouaves Facebook group

Group of Company G, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Zouaves), during seige of Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865

If I was to reenact the Civil War I would like to be a Zouave. I can't ride. 

ICM Zouaves

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Birney's Zouaves

 There is a Facebook group Civil War Zouaves

Details here

Thought I would do a post about Civil War Zouaves. Picked this unit. I picked them at random. I am not an expert on the Civil War but Zouaves are part of the story I think.

Gruppo Storica Generale Cler

 Facebook page. Italian group recreating French Zouaves of 1859. Here they are at Solferino.

Civil War Zouaves

 This is a Facebook I have just joined. There is some good stuff on there including this image. This was posted by Patrick Schroeder. He says "A nice colorized version of Frank Brownell in the first uniform of the 11th New York Fire Zouaves....he is standing on the flag that Ellsworth removed from the Marshall house hotel."

The first Zouaves (thanks to Andrey Efremov)

 

François d’Orléans, Prince de Joinville 1831. Comme je crois Lui-même est représenté sur un cheval à côté du maréchal Clauzel. La première revue des premiers Zouaves en présence du marechal Bertrand Clauzel, le créateur des Zouaves.

Dead Zouave at the Malakoff

I recommend the book 'Cadogan's Crimea' based around the Crimean watercolours of the man on the spot - lots of great artwork covering all manner of subjects - a lot of French subjects - not restricted to the British troops at all - some subjects are quite morbid - like this study of a Zouave who has arranged himself gracefully to die - something the French apparently copied from the Arabs.

ZOUAVE SAVING A CHILD FROM A BURNING CHURCH , 1857

 

Emile Charles Hippolyte Lecomte-Vernet

 (French, 1821–1900)

C1860s. A Victorian family by the seaside. Charles Wynne Nichols. Note child dressed as a Zouave

Zouave Guards Buster Keaton The Play House 1921

This is pretty funny. 

Le Zouave et son biblot

Planche de l'album "Soldats et civils en Crimée, au Mexique et en Algérie sous le Seconde Empire", de Georges Hermann

Adolphe Yvon 1817 - 1893 PRISE DE LA GORGE DE MALAKOFF, SEPTEMBER 1855

Zoomable image here

French Zouaves in action

Scène de combat by Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils

Zouave camp on Brescia city walls in June 1859, by Angelo Inganni

Close-ups and information here

La halte des Zouaves, Mexique, 1864 Charles-Dominique dit Oscar LAHALLE Nancy, 1834 – Paris, 1909

More info here