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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 .
The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. Although the camels proved to be hardy and well suited to travel through the region, the Army declined to adopt them for military use.
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
Pages in category "Camel cavalry" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
A brief attempt was made to resurrect them but the plan never came to fruition. The Ganga Risala still survives though as a part of the Border Security Force, retaining the name Bikaner Camel Corps. [4] While primarily employed for ceremonial purposes, it is one of the few camel cavalry units still retained by present-day armed forces.
Camel cavalry, German South West Africa, 1904 Numbers of Members of the Schutztruppe for German South West Africa per year (1898–1914) (missing data for the years 1906 and 1910-1912 were supplemented by mean values).
A zamburak consisted of a soldier on a camel with a mounted swivel gun (a small falconet) hinged on a metal fork-rest protruding from the camel's saddle. To fire it, the camel was put on its knees. The name is derived from the Persian word for wasp zambur (زنبور), possibly in reference to the sound earlier camel-mounted crossbows made. The ...