ZOUAVE  , the name given to certain

infantry regiments in the French army . The corps was first raised in Algeria in 1831 with one and later two battalions, and recruited solely from the Zouaves, a tribe of Berbers, dwelling in the mountains of the Jurjura range (see KABYLES) . In 1838 a third battalion was raised, and the regiment thus formed was commanded by Lamoriciere . Shortly afterwards the formation of the Tirailleurs algeriens, the Turcos, as the corps for natives, changed the enlistment for the Zouave battalions, and they became, as they now remain, a purely French body . Three regiments were formed in 1852, and a fourth, the Zouaves of the Imperial Guard, in 1854 . The Crimean War was the first service which the regiments saw outside Algeria . There are now four regiments, of five battalions each, four of which are permanently in Africa, the fifth being stationed in France as a depot regiment .