Richard Hill, Peter Hogg - A Black Corps D'Elite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion With the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and Its Survivors in Subsequent African History
Michigan State University Press | 1995 | ISBN: 087013339X | 235 pages | PDF | 51.66 MB
Two great experts on the history of the Sudan coordinated a fine study of the only time a force of regular African troops were deployed to the New World. Taking place during the French intervention in Mexico, this is the story of a battalion of Sudanese infantry who fought against Juarez and his Mexican patriots.