redarmyscreaming:Tirailleurs Senegalais The tirailleurs sénégalais (Senegalese riflemen) figured pro
redarmyscreaming:Tirailleurs Senegalais The tirailleurs sénégalais (Senegalese riflemen) figured prominently among the many indigenous peoples who served in the French army during the First World War. By 1918, France had recruited some 192,000 tirailleurs sénégalais throughout French West Africa, 134,000 of them fought in Europe. -- source link