The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting ForceHarperCollins Publishers, 1991 - 728 pages The legend of Beau Gaste and the hell-raising, hard-drinking, long-suffering, loyal Legionnaires has been immortalized by countless novels and Hollywood movies. Here Douglas Porch examines the Legion myth and goes beyond it to explore the Legion's mystique and describe its performance from its founding in 1831 to today. 32 pages of halftones; maps; index. |
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... killed and 66 wounded in the war , while 1,625 legionnaires were killed or wounded . The Crimean campaign was important for the Legion in at least two respects . First , it was the first time that the two foreign " legions " fought as a ...
... killed and 66 wounded in the war , while 1,625 legionnaires were killed or wounded . The Crimean campaign was important for the Legion in at least two respects . First , it was the first time that the two foreign " legions " fought as a ...
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... killed and six wounded . The next day , a sortie by the garrison drove the Chinese out of their most advanced saps and allowed the legionnaires to destroy some of the approaching earthworks . But the relief provided by this small ...
... killed and six wounded . The next day , a sortie by the garrison drove the Chinese out of their most advanced saps and allowed the legionnaires to destroy some of the approaching earthworks . But the relief provided by this small ...
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... killed . Nothing will stop them . " An English officer trying to put some backbone into the Hova army told him that , in their panic to get away from the French attack on the Ambohimenas , fully 300 soldiers had tumbled over a precipice ...
... killed . Nothing will stop them . " An English officer trying to put some backbone into the Hova army told him that , in their panic to get away from the French attack on the Ambohimenas , fully 300 soldiers had tumbled over a precipice ...
Table des matières
Le Plus Beau Corps de France | 1 |
Between Politics Diplomacy and the Cannon The Legion in Spain 18351839 | 22 |
The New Legion | 50 |
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