The Damned Die Hard: The Story of the French Foreign Legion |
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... legion- naires been in Morocco ? " he asked . He broke his tripping step at ... battalion in the Morocco campaign . Rollet realized that extraordinary men ... Legion like every other French army unit would no longer believe in its own ...
... legion- naires been in Morocco ? " he asked . He broke his tripping step at ... battalion in the Morocco campaign . Rollet realized that extraordinary men ... Legion like every other French army unit would no longer believe in its own ...
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... army of Viet- minh . First they attacked the Third Legion Battalion with artillery and fanatical charges to dislodge it from vital crests ; the le- gionnaires massacred the Vietminh infantry and hung on . On another crest , however ...
... army of Viet- minh . First they attacked the Third Legion Battalion with artillery and fanatical charges to dislodge it from vital crests ; the le- gionnaires massacred the Vietminh infantry and hung on . On another crest , however ...
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... battalion . Our road of retreat is thick with bodies , with wounded men who ... Legion . " On Beatrice they lifted their wounded , placing them on ... Legion battalion . The evidence confronted them in Surgeon Major Paul Grauwin's dugout ...
... battalion . Our road of retreat is thick with bodies , with wounded men who ... Legion . " On Beatrice they lifted their wounded , placing them on ... Legion battalion . The evidence confronted them in Surgeon Major Paul Grauwin's dugout ...
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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