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... Bernelle , determined to make or break the regi- ment . An officer with a strong theatrical touch , Bernelle put his faith in spit and polish and the knout , and after a few months of crowded cells and corporal punishment , it did seem ...
... Bernelle , determined to make or break the regi- ment . An officer with a strong theatrical touch , Bernelle put his faith in spit and polish and the knout , and after a few months of crowded cells and corporal punishment , it did seem ...
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... Bernelle for saddling them with his wife . The poor man had no choice ; he might bluster and bully in the mess or the parade ground ; in his home he bowed and scraped . Everyone but Bernelle realized that he had married a shrew ...
... Bernelle for saddling them with his wife . The poor man had no choice ; he might bluster and bully in the mess or the parade ground ; in his home he bowed and scraped . Everyone but Bernelle realized that he had married a shrew ...
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... Bernelle a general , he found that Tharsile was still choosing even his officers and NCOs . He might have re- sponded to the lady's advances , but in the words of a Spanish observer , " Conrad is too brave an officer to flatter a woman ...
... Bernelle a general , he found that Tharsile was still choosing even his officers and NCOs . He might have re- sponded to the lady's advances , but in the words of a Spanish observer , " Conrad is too brave an officer to flatter a woman ...
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Aage Abd el-Kader adjutant Algeria Algiers Amilakvari Arab arms army artillery attack Aubagne battle bayonet Bazaine Behanzin Bel-Abbès Berbers Bernelle Bir-Hakeim blockhouse British bullet cafard Camerone camp Canrobert Cao Bang Captain Carlist Cendrars Charton chief Chinese Colomb-Béchar Colonel column command Conrad Danjou dead death Degueldre desert died Dien Bien Phu Dovecar Eliahu Elkington fight fire Foreign Legion fought France French Gaucher Gaulle German Giap gionnaires Goulet grenades hand hills honor hundred Indochina Jean Danjou Jeanpierre joined the Legion jungle Kabyles kepi killed Klems Koenig Lang Son Legion officers legionnaires Lepage Leroy Lieutenant Lyautey machine guns MacMahon Mader Mexican miles Miliana military Moroccan Morocco naires Narvik Negrier night paraded paratroopers Paris Pechkoff pick Pierre pinard prisoners rebels regiment retreat Riffians rifles Rollet Saint-Arnaud sergeant major shells shot shouted soldiers Soledad Tasnády Tonkin troops Tuyen Quang Vietminh weeks wounded