Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the corps of Turkish cavalry organized in the fourteenth century on a feudal basis, who fought in a very disorderly manner, and were disbanded soon after serving as the chief instruments in the suppression of the Janizaries in 1826.
- noun One of the corps of native Algerian cavalry in the French service, originally formed from the Turkish spahees serving in Algeria at the time of the French conquest.
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- noun An Algerian cavalryman in the French army.
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This was done at the city of Diarbekir in Mesopotatamia, by a Turkish horse soldier, whom they call a _spahee_.
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