The History of Zouaves - France in the Crimean War and the Pont de l'Alma

[Litwin]

The Crimean war is an ill remembered conflict thank you for remembering. God Save the Queen
Do not forget that the zouaves owe their name to a tribe, the zouaras who very quickly pledged allegiance to the French in 1830 during the capture of Algiers. It was decided to create two battalions with these Muslim Tirbal soldiers and a Turkish-inspired uniform.The zouaves were quickly composed only of non-Muslim Frenchmen and the tribal warriors were poured into the Algerian skirmishers. Alongside the Zouaves, you also had the Turcos, in a different uniform (blue-gray) in fact Algerian skirmishers made up of native Muslims.The zouaves were recruted in the infamous neighborhoods and the cut-throats of Paris !

 

[Manonthestreet]

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/american-civil-war/zouave-regiments-civil-war.html

 

[Litwin]

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/american-civil-war/zouave-regiments-civil-war.html

yes!

 

[braalian]

The Crimean war is an ill remembered conflict

Well, the last people alive during that war died decades and decades ago, so….

 

[Litwin]

Well, the last people alive during that war died decades and decades ago, so….

The Crimean War (1853–1856) was a game-changing moment in World history.
It accelerated the collapse of the Moscow Empire , whose rulers inherited a Mongol-style system of absolute power and peasant slavery (serfdom).
Defeat in Crimea forced Muscovy’s rulers to liberate millions of serfs in 1861, unleashing massive city growth, modernization — but also irreversible instability.

Weakened and desperate for funds, the Moscow Empire sold Alaska to the United States in 1867.
That’s why Americans should care more about the Crimean War: it changed their map too.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500544

Tsarev ulus: Russia in the Golden Horde on JSTOR

Charles J. Halperin, Tsarev ulus: Russia in the Golden Horde, Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique, Vol. 23, No. 2, Autour du XVIIIe siècle (Apr. - Jun., 1982), pp. 257-263

www.jstor.org

Thread 'Moscow officials demand to declare the sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867 null and void.'

Jan 31, 2025

dont you think that Its time to act , and its time for Moscow empire to FOUND OUT ? As I said many times here : 'Decolonization of Moscow empire is the only way to end its imperialism', And I don’t mean Putin´s imperialism, but Moscow imperialism in general , from Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky to Navalny and Dugin.

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[Litwin]

Well, the last people alive during that war died decades and decades ago, so….

Reminder: Empires always fall
Moscow empires war record :-

1856 defeated by Britain and France

1905 defeated by Japan

1917 defeated by Germany

1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states

1939 defeated by Finland

1969 defeated by China

1989 defeated by Afghanistan

1989 defeated in the Cold War.

1996 defeated by Chechnya

2022 defeated by Ukraine

2024 defeated in Syria

WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including ghaza imperialist Solzhenitsyn

Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-

a) Hungary 1956

b) Czechoslovakia 1968

c) Moldova 1992

d) Georgia 2008

 

[Litwin]

UPDATE :

Thread 'BREAKING : VIDEO, France has detained an oil tanker belonging to putin’s shadow 🇷🇺 fleet.'

Oct 1, 2025

Good. The only thing Moscow empire and Putin understand is force and control. Good news, all putin pirate- tankers from shadow fleet should be seized as they are major threat to EU , NATO and World order now.

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[whitehall]

Foreign posters might not care but Zouaves were infantry units on both sides in the American Civil War in the early years. Their flashy uniforms made them easy targets so they abandoned the flashy garb for conventional uniforms later on in the war.

 

[Litwin]

Their flashy uniforms made them easy targets so they abandoned the flashy garb for conventional uniforms later on in the war.

dont you think that the flashy uniforms work well as psychological warfare against backward Afro- Asians ?

 

[whitehall]

dont you think that the flashy uniforms work well as psychological warfare against backward Afro- Asians ?


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Nobody in the U.S. really cares about the Crimean conflict. Hint...find a European forum to bore people.