MOST OF MEN WOUNDED Garrison of French Officers and Native Troops at Nightly Grips With Riffians.
INCREASE DEFENSES TO GUARD SHAMEEN; Foreigners at Canton Still Preparing, Though Native Troops Make No Move.
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By 1880 small groups of European regulars, armed with modern weapons and exercising fire discipline, could overwhelm many times their number of native troops.
S Total American forces..... Native troops....... Total Strength, Military District Philippine Constabulary (Moro and Christian ) mixed) under Civil Government orders J Present and Absent.
After all, this was the late 19th century when well-armed and well-trained colonial armies repeatedly defeated vast armies of "native" troops.
A great part of the garrison duty in the forts on the coast and in the interior is performed by the native troops, and they are said to get along very well with the French.
As they were naturally interested in the subject of native troops in the French service, Frank took the first opportunity to make a sketch of a couple of them that he saw on duty.
From an authoritative source it was stated that an ultimatum would be sent to Abyssinia, unless Italy received complete satisfaction for the latest incident on the Abyssinian border, which, according to the official communiqu?esterday, resulted in the death of five Italian native troops.
Stein begins the story with characteristic indirectness: The present tenant was a lieutenant in the army and as he was stationed at the garrison in Belley, they have a battalion of Moroccan troops there, it is always strange to see in a mountain French village these native troops.
