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Tirailleurs sénégalais
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Senegalese Tirailleurs.
After 1945
The 24e Regiment de Marche de Tirailleurs Sénégalais, comprising two battalions, served in the Indochina War between 1946 and 1954. Several independent battalions of Tirailleurs Sénégalais fought in the same theatre of war. The Tirailleurs Sénégalais comprised up to 16 percent of the French forces during the Indochina War. The Tirailleurs also served in the suppression of the 1947 uprising in Madagascar against French colonial rule . In 1949 there were still nine regiments of Tirailleurs Sénégalais in the French Army, serving in West Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Indochina.