Regular infantryman in the Algerian resistance
Regular infantryman in the Algerian resistance army of Emir Abdelkader, in the struggle against French colonialism. In fez, jacket with hood, culottes, armed with sword and musket. Fantassin regulier d'Abdel-Kader, Algerie. Handcoloured woodcut by from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium
Picture No
14017133
Media ID
46699091
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4481px x 7259px
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Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
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Algerie Archivist Auguste Wahlen Culottes Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Manners Military Leader Moeurs Musket Pseudonym Woodblock Engraving
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