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Additional Images.

1. Illustration from the brush of Michel Provost. From left to right. Martinique Volunteer. Egyptian Infantry. Mexican Auxiliary in the Torrid Zone.

2. The whole French Intervention in Mexico French and Allied Army range.

THE EGYPTIAN-SUDANESE BATTALION

•  The battalion had an original strength of 446 officers and men plus one civilian interpreter. It departed Alexandria on a French ship in January 1863.
•  The Sudanese were geographically limited in their operational range, but still engaged in a variety of missions. Mainly tasked to guard the incomplete railway from Veracruz and to act as train escorts, they occasionally joined other French and allied units in counter-guerrilla operations. In fact, the Sudanese never fought as a battalion while in Mexico. Rather they operated in companies either independently or as parts of larger forces under European commanders.
•  The Sudanese established a reputation as skilled fighters among allies and enemies alike. In nearly all the actions in which they took a part the Sudanese inflicted more casualties than they absorbed, sometimes routing vastly superior Republican forces. From their first engagements defending rail traffic, through the nearly disastrous ambush of Callejon de la Laja (2 March 1865), to final withdrawal as one of the last elements of the French army to leave Mexico in March 1867, the Africans demonstrated fierceness in battle, technical proficiency, and soldierly professionalism. Of the 447 men who left Alexandria in 1863, fully 321 returned to Egypt four years later.

Source: ‘A Black Corps d'Elite’, Richard Hill and Peter Hogg, Michigan State University Press, 1995. Review by Jerrrey S. Gaydish, Arizona State University.