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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... column commanded by General Camille Trézel dispatched against Abd el - Kader , who was preaching resistance to tribes in the east near Oran . At five o'clock on the morning of June 26 , Trézel organized his column , made up of three ...
... column commanded by General Camille Trézel dispatched against Abd el - Kader , who was preaching resistance to tribes in the east near Oran . At five o'clock on the morning of June 26 , Trézel organized his column , made up of three ...
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... column but remained at a respectful distance . At two o'clock in the afternoon the column reached a point where the track ran between the Macta marshes on the right and the hills of the Muley- Ismael forest to the left . It was at this ...
... column but remained at a respectful distance . At two o'clock in the afternoon the column reached a point where the track ran between the Macta marshes on the right and the hills of the Muley- Ismael forest to the left . It was at this ...
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... column slow and difficult to control , and forfeited any element of surprise the French might hope to achieve . " " Pfirmann found the tendency of the coolies to bolt for the bush at the first report of a rifle a special nuisance as ...
... column slow and difficult to control , and forfeited any element of surprise the French might hope to achieve . " " Pfirmann found the tendency of the coolies to bolt for the bush at the first report of a rifle a special nuisance as ...
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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1er étranger Abd el-Kader Abd el-Krim Algeria Algiers appeared Arabs Armée d'Afrique artillery attack Azan barracks battalion battle became began believed Bernelle Bugeaud camp campaign Captain Carlist caused cavalry Chinese colonial column combat command complained corps Dahomans Dahomey DBLE defense desertion despite discipline enemy enlisted especially étranger fact fighting fire Flutsch force Foreign Legion fought France French army garrison German Grisot guerre Herbillon Indochina infantry Jews Kemencei killed lack Lamborelle Lang Son large number Légion étrangère Legion officers legionnaires Lyautey Madagascar Martyn Mexican military morale Moroccan Morocco Moslem mounted companies naires NCOs North Africa operations paras Paris perhaps pied noir Poer political posts problems recruits regiment régiment de marche régiment étranger RMLE Rollet Rosen Saint-Arnaud sent September sergeant served SHAT Sidi-bel-Abbès soldiers Souvenirs Spanish Sylvère tirailleurs Tonkin troops Tuyen Quang units Viet Minh Vietnamese volunteers wounded wrote Zaatcha Zédé zouaves