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.

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