Colonial troops or colonial army refers to various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories.
Hindu priests garlanding the colours of the 35th Bengal Light Infantry at a Presentation of Colours ceremony, c. 1847
1773 illustration of Bombay Army sepoys
Libyan soldiers of the Royal Corps of Colonial Troops, 1936
1886 illustration of Algerian spahis of the Army of Africa
A paramilitary is an armed, militarized-like force or unit that functions and is organized in a manner analogous to a military force, but does not have professional or legitimate status. The Oxford En
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Legion of Frontiersmen, Edmonton Command, 1915 – a nationalist paramilitary group not officially affiliated with the Canadian Army
A group of the "Forest Brothers" in central Estonia meeting with a German unit in 1941
The Steel Shirts copying the Nazi salute during its rally in Syria