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Camel cavalry, or camelry (French: méharistes, pronounced), is a generic designation for armed forces using camels as a means of transportation. Sometimes warriors or soldiers of this type also fought from camel-back with spears , bows , or firearms .
Camel cavalry units in the Spanish, French, Italian and British colonial possessions in North Africa and the Middle East, for instance: Méhariste , a camel mounted African unit in the French army Free French Camel Corps , a camel cavalry unit of the Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle during World War II in Eastern Africa
The Lucky Luke anthology album La Corde du pendu includes a story titled La Mine du chameau, which features a fictionalized account of the Camel Corps venture and its aftermath. In season one of the series Maverick, Brett Maverick (James Garner) wins a "full blooded Arabian mount, Imported!" which turns out to be a camel which drives the story ...
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Italian camel cavalry in Rome, 1926. Locally recruited camel corps, named Meharisti, were maintained by the Royal Corps of Colonial Troops in the Italian North African territories of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania during the colonial period. The Italian Zaptie meharista served primarily as desert gendarmerie. Like their French and Spanish ...
Photo released on November 12, 2001, claiming to show "the first American cavalry charge of the 21st century" [2] in league with Northern Alliance forces in the Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif. [3] The horse was the most widely used animal throughout the recorded history of warfare. Early mounts could pull a chariot or carry lightly armored ...
The Imperial Camel Corps Brigade (ICCB) was a camel-mounted infantry brigade that the British Empire raised in December 1916 during the First World War for service in the Middle East. From a small beginning the unit eventually grew to a brigade of four battalions , one battalion each from Great Britain and New Zealand and two battalions from ...
Camel cavalry, German South West Africa, 1904 Camel patrol, German South West Africa, 1907 Zebra cavalry, German East Africa, 1911. The Schutztruppe in German South West Africa was structured in 12 companies of mounted infantry totalling 1,500 men, primarily Germans. The 7th Company, stationed in the northern desert area of the colony, was ...