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Tirailleur
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Ti`rail`leur´
n.1.(Mil.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
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It opens with a detachment of repatriated black tirailleurs (infantrymen recruited from French West Africa) disembarking from a ship to cheers of "Vive la France
FORWARD TO AFRICA by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Camp de Thiaroye (1988), a film by the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, is based on the historical massacre of the famous Tirailleurs Senegalais who dared claim their dues from the colonial authority (de Benoist 1982: 151-153).
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Tragically, during the hardest-fought period in the French campaign, up to 3,000 of these Tirailleurs Senegalais prisoners were evidently massacred by German soldiers.
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