In the Foreign Legion. Illustrated

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  • Engelsk
  • 162 sider

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n Belfort: Sunrays and fear: Madame and the waiter: The French lieutenant: The enlistment office of the Foreign Legion: Naked humanity: A surgeon with a lost sense of smell: "Officier Allemand" Transport of recruits on the railway: What our ticket did for us and France: The patriotic conductor: Marseilles: The gate of the French Colonies: The Colonial hotel: A study in blue and yellow: On the Mediterranean: The ship's cook: The story of the Royal Prince of Prussia at Saida: Oran: Wine and l gionnaires: How the deserter reached Spain and why he returned. French and American bugle-calls: Southward to the city of the Foreign Legion: Sidi-bel-Abb s: The sergeant is not pleased: A final fight with pride: The jokes of the Legion: The wise negro: Bugler Smith: I help a l gionnaire to desert: The Eleventh Company: How clothes are sold in the Legion: Number 17889. In the company's storeroom: Mr. Smith-American, l gionnaire, philosopher: The Legion's neatness: The favourite substantive of the Foreign Legion: What the commander of the Old Guard said at Waterloo: Old and young l gionnaires: The canteen: Madame la Cantini re: The regimental feast: Strange men and strange things: The skull: The prisoners' march: The wealth of Monsieur Rassedin, l gionnaire: "Rehabilitation" The Koran chapter of the Stallions. A day's work as a recruit: Allez, hurry up : The Legion's etiquette: A morning's run: The "cercle d'enfer" and the lack of soap: The main object of the Legion's training: Splendid marchers: Independent soldiers: Forty kilometres a day: Uniform, accoutrements, baggage, victualling: The training of the l gionnaire in detail: The l gionnaire as a practical man: Specialties of the Legion: Programme for a week in the Legion: The l gionnaire as a labourer. The money troubles of the Legion: Five centimes wages: The cheapest soldiers of the world: Letters from the Legion: The science of "decorating" The industries of the l gionnaires: What the bugler did for a living: The man with the biscuits: A thief in the night: Summary lynch law: Herr von Rader and la Cantini re: "The Legion works-the Legion gets no pay ." The daily exodus to town: Ben Mansur's coffee: The Ghetto: The citizens of Sidi-bel-Abb s and the l gionnaires: How the Legion squared accounts with the civilians: A forbidden part of the town: Primitive vice: A dance of a night: The gardens: The last resting-place of the Legion's dead. The hall of honour: A collection of ruined talents: The battle of Camaron: A skeleton outline of the Legion's history: A hundred thousand victims: A psychological puzzle: True heroes: How they are rewarded: The chances of promotion: The pension system of the Foreign Legion. The Legion's war-cry: A night alarm: On the march: The counting of the milestones: Under canvas: The brutality of the marches: The l gionnaire and the staff doctor: My fight for an opiate: The "marching pig" The psychology of the marches: Excited nerves: The song of imprecations. An unpleasant occurrence: The last three coppers: The Roumanian Jew from Berlin: Monsieur Via sse: The Legion's atmosphere: The Cafard demoniacs: Bismarck's double: Kr gerle's whim: The madness of L gionnaire Bauer: Brutal humour: Death in the desert: The Legion's deserters: A disastrous flight in a motor-car: The tragic fate of an Austrian engineer: In the Ghetto of Sidi-bel-Abb s: The business part of desertion: Oran and Algiers: The Consulate as a trap: The financial side of desertion: One hundred kilometres of suffering: Shamming: In the Suez Canal: Morocco. The return of the poumpistes: The scale of punishments in the Legion: Of spiteful non-commissioned officers: The Legion's axiom: Sad history of Little Jean: The punishment machine: Lost years: The prisons in the Foreign Legion: The general cells: Life in the prison: On sentry duty amon

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