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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 1044 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZOUAVE , the name given to certain See also:

infantry regiments in the See also:French See also:army. The See also:corps was first raised in See also:Algeria in 1831 with one and later two battalions, and recruited solely from the Zouaves, a tribe of See also:Berbers, dwelling in the mountains of the Jurjura range (see See also:KABYLES). In 1838 a third See also:battalion was raised, and the See also:regiment thus formed was commanded by See also:Lamoriciere. Shortly afterwards the formation of the Tirailleurs algeriens, the Turcos, as the corps for natives, changed the enlistment for the Zouave battalions, and they became, as they now remain, a purely French See also:body. Three regiments were formed in 1852, and a See also:fourth, the Zouaves of the Imperial Guard, in 1854. The See also:Crimean See also:War was the first service which the regiments saw outside Algeria. There are now four regiments, of five battalions each, four of which are permanently in See also:Africa, the fifth being stationed in See also:France as a See also:depot regiment.

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