Category Archives: Armée d’Afrique

Photographs from 1908 – Casablanca Incursion

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Jack Wagner

Just a quick post today to share some pictures recently posted to the French digital archives at Gallica.  These show events and troops related to the 1907-1908 French incursion into Morocco and subsequent battles and maneuvers against rebel tribesmen further … Continue reading →

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The Old Foreign Legion 1831-1835 and its Uniforms

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Jack Wagner

Tradition, the fantastic French language magazine that showcases historical military uniforms, equipment and militaria (armes-uniformes-figurines) had a three part series back in 1997 that explored the founding of the French Foreign Legion and goes into detail about their uniforms and … Continue reading →

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Photo Album of Fremdenlegionär Leutener

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Jack Wagner

This amazing collection of vintage photographs recently appeared on Flickr in an album format posted by Hans-Michael Tappen of Munich.  It is a remarkable set of 382 original photographs affixed to several pages of a photo album that belonged to … Continue reading →

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Hi-Res Uniform Prints Part 4

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Jack Wagner

Here is an additional set of uniform prints from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.  These were all painted by French artist and illustrator Maurice Toussaint (September 1882 – December 1974).  Toussaint gained a solid reputation for his expertise in military … Continue reading →

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Hi-Res Uniform Prints Part 3

Posted on September 5, 2015 by Jack Wagner

These images again come from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.  These consists of watercolor works (aquarelles) from the brush of Pierre Albert Leroux.  His works on this site cover French soldiers from the Napoleonic era up until WWII.  The … Continue reading →

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Not-so High Res Uniform Prints

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Jack Wagner

Here are some downsized uniform pictures for those readers who really don’t want to download the massive image files in my previous two posts.  Foreign Legion Uniform Prints…. 2.  French Uniforms from Auguste Legras…

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Hi-Res Uniform Prints Part 2

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Jack Wagner

Here is the second installment of pictures from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.  Today’s images feature the artwork of Auguste Legras (1817 – 1887) who was “born in Perigueux, France and was a pupil of Jean-Claude Bonneford (1796 – … Continue reading →

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French Magazine Covers 5

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Jack Wagner

Here are some more color covers that graced the front and back pages of the French Magazines Le Petit Journal, Le Petit Parisien, and Le Petit Provençal.  The theme is that they all feature good pictures of the uniforms worn by … Continue reading →

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Armée d’Afrique Video

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Jack Wagner

I stumbled on this video on You Tube today.  It’s a great little historical video (24 minutes) about the Armée d’Afrique with lots of good footage of Free French Forces fighting in WWII.  This video must have been made in … Continue reading →

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L’Armée d’Afrique: Zouaves

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Jack Wagner

In order to flesh out the North African milieu of this blog it is necessary to explore the other French forces that composed the Armée d’Afrique from the early 1800’s to World War II.  Chief among these forces were the … Continue reading →

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