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French zouave, c. 1870 A small detachment of France's 4th Regiment of Zouaves in the M'Sila region during the Algerian War, c. 1961 The Zouaves (French pronunciation: ⓘ) were a class of light infantry regiments of the French Army and other units modelled on it, which served between 1830 and 1962, and served in French North Africa.
The Papal Zouaves (Italian: Zuavi Pontifici) were an infantry battalion (later regiment) dedicated to defending the Papal States. Named after the French zouave regiments, the Zuavi Pontifici were mainly young men, unmarried and Catholic , who volunteered to assist Pope Pius IX in his struggle against the Italian unificationist Risorgimento .
The United States Zouave Cadets (also known as the Chicago Zouaves and Zouave Cadets of Chicago) was a short-lived zouave unit of the Illinois militia that has been credited as the force behind the surge in popularity of zouave infantry in the United States and Confederate States in the mid-19th century.
Auguste-Henri Jacob, better known as the Zouave Jacob, was born on March 6, 1828, in Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Saône-et-Loire, and died on October 23, 1913, in Paris.He was a renowned French healer during the Second Empire.
François Rochebrune in the Zouaves of Death uniform. Zouaves of Death in Battle of Miechów during January Uprising 1863 on Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski painting. The formation was known for its distinctive and elaborate uniforms, also based on that of the Algerian Zouaves, [3] which consisted of a cotton shirt, a vest made of elk hide, a black silk robe, a collarless black silk frock coat ...
The 11th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the early years of the American Civil War.The regiment was organized in New York City in May 1861 as a Zouave regiment, known for its unusual dress and drill style, by Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, a personal friend of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. [3]
The Zouave statue in 2004 The Zouave statue, half-submerged by floodwaters on 3 June 2016. The Zouave is an 1856 stone statue by French artist Georges Diebolt, which has been sited on the Pont de l'Alma in Paris since the 1850s. The statue is used as an informal flood marker for the level of the River Seine in Paris.
USS Zouave was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was needed by the Navy to be part of the fleet of ships to prevent blockade runners from entering ports in the Confederacy .