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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... Tuyen Quang , which lay on the Clear River in the highlands northwest of Hanoi . In mid - November , a column of seven hundred legionnaires and marines under Lieutenant Colonel Du- chesne made their way up the Clear River supported by ...
... Tuyen Quang , which lay on the Clear River in the highlands northwest of Hanoi . In mid - November , a column of seven hundred legionnaires and marines under Lieutenant Colonel Du- chesne made their way up the Clear River supported by ...
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... Tuyen Quang . The siege of Tuyen Quang is ranked in the annals of the Legion heroics only slightly below that of Camerone , and rightly so . However , the stra- tegic role played by Tuyen Quang in the French campaign of conquest is ...
... Tuyen Quang . The siege of Tuyen Quang is ranked in the annals of the Legion heroics only slightly below that of Camerone , and rightly so . However , the stra- tegic role played by Tuyen Quang in the French campaign of conquest is ...
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... Tuyen Quang was a sobering one : " All the approaches [ to Tuyen Quang ] -churned , blasted , lamentable - were covered with corpses and the carrion rotted in the air , " Huguet complained . " The pestilential ema- nations of all of ...
... Tuyen Quang was a sobering one : " All the approaches [ to Tuyen Quang ] -churned , blasted , lamentable - were covered with corpses and the carrion rotted in the air , " Huguet complained . " The pestilential ema- nations of all of ...
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 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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