The Tirailleurs indochinois were soldiers of several regiments of local ethnic Indochinese infantry organized as Tirailleurs by the French colonial authorities, initially in Vietnam from 15 March 1880
Tirailleur annamite
Ethnic Vietnamese soldiers circa 1916 during World War I.
The Missiri Mosque is a former French military community center inspired by sub-Saharan Islamic architecture. It was constructed in 1928–1930 for the Senegalese Tirailleurs based in military camps in
French West Africa Pavilion at the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931, imitating the Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali.
Reconstructed termite mounds next to the Missiri mosque.