Senegalese Tirailleurs

Senegalese Tirailleurs
Bayanai
Ƙaramin ɓangare na	military branch (en)
Farawa	1857
Suna saboda	Senegal
Ƙasa	Faransa

'Yan Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) sun kasance rukuni ne na sojojin mulkin mallaka a cikin Sojan Faransa. Da farko an ɗauke su aiki daga Senegal, Afirka ta Yamma ta Faransa sannan daga baya a ko'ina cikin Yammaci, Tsakiya da Gabashin Afirka: manyan yankuna kudu da Sahara na mulkin mallaka na Faransa. Sunan tirailleur, wanda ke fassara daban-daban a matsayin "mai jajircewa", "rifleman", ko "sharpshooter", wani suna ne da Sojojin Faransa suka ba wa 'yan asalin ƙasar da aka ɗauka a cikin yankuna daban-daban da kuma mallakar ƙasashen ƙetare na Daular Faransa a cikin ƙarni na sha tara 19 da ashirin 20.

Duk da daukar ma'aikata ba a iyakance shi a Senegal ba, wadannan rukunin dakaru sun dauki taken "sénégalais" tunda a nan ne aka fara kirkirar bakaken fata na Afirka Tirailleur. An kirkiro Tirailleurs na Senegal na farko a cikin Shekara ta 1857 kuma sun yi aiki a Faransa a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe da dama, ciki har da Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya (wanda ya ba da kusan sojoji 200,000, fiye da 135,000 daga cikinsu sun yi yaƙi a Turai kuma an kashe 30,000 daga cikinsu) ^[1] da Yaƙin Duniya na II (daukar sojoji 179,000, an tura 40,000 zuwa Yammacin Turai). Sauran tirailleur regiments an tashe su a Arewacin Afirka ta Faransa daga larabawa da Berber na aljeriya, Tunisia da Morocco,^[2] ɗaya ana kiransu tirailleurs nord-africains ko Turcos. Hakanan an tayar da tsarin mulkin Tirailleur a cikin Indochina, ana kiransu Vietnamese, Tonkinese ko Annamites Tirailleurs.

1. ↑ (in French) Marc Michel, "Les Africains et la Grande Guerre. L'appel à l'Afrique (1914–1918)", Ed : Karthala, 24 October 2003
2. ↑ Marc Michel,