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Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba during the First Suez Offensive of World War I, 1915. 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.
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Camel cavalry (14 P) D. Dogs in warfare (3 C, 23 P) E. War elephants (11 P) F. ... Pages in category "Military animals" The following 47 pages are in this category ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...