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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.
The Hi Jolly Monument is a grave site in the Hi Jolly Cemetery located at Quartzsite, Arizona, United States, marking the grave of Hi Jolly, a Syrian-born camel driver brought to the United States in 1856 to drive camels for the US Cavalry. [2] The site is located halfway between Phoenix, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. [3]
Camel driver (Camel Corps), miner, scout Hi Jolly or Hadji Ali ( Arabic : حاج علي , romanized : Ḥājj ʿAlī ; Turkish : Hacı Ali ), also known as Philip Tedro ( c. 1828 – December 16, 1902), was an Ottoman subject of Syrian and Greek parentage, [ 1 ] and in 1856 became one of the first camel drivers ever hired by the US Army to lead ...
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.
Camp Verde was a United States Army facility established on July 8, 1856 in Kerr County, Texas. It was along the road from San Antonio to El Paso. The camp was the headquarters for U.S. Camel Corps, which experimented with using dromedaries as pack animals in the southwestern United States. The Army imported camels in 1856 and 1857, using them ...
Sep. 12—When my Dad was little his family went on a vacation that would drive them across the deserts of the Southwest. He said he kept his eyes peeled for the camels, to no avail. Good news Dad ...
Henry Constantine Wayne (September 18, 1815 – March 15, 1883) was a United States Army officer, and is known for his commanding the expedition to test the U.S. Camel Corps as part of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis's plan to use camels as a transport in the West.
United States Camel Corps, a mid-nineteenth century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwest United States; Scinde Camel Corps, an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army (1843–1853) Egyptian Camel Corps, fighting in the Battle of Kirbekan and Ginnis (both 1885)