French Foreign Legion
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in Franco-Prussian War, 120, 164–67, 170, 316
French high command's attitude toward, 58, 60, 62, 132
future of, 631–32
Gaullist/Vichy division in, 442, 464, 471–85, 492–93, 502, 607
heterogeneity of, 28–29, 121, 133, 158, 176–77, 184, 186, 250, 404, 423, 426, 548, 564, 620
imperial expansion from 1870 to 1914,
role in, 170
in Indochina, see Indochina; Indochina War
Intelligence Service, 438, 439, 487, 490, 493, 623
language differences, overcoming, 186–87, 349
Macta, Battle of, 19–21, 27, 28
in Madagascar, see Madagascar
French Foreign Legion (cont.)
medical attention, 80, 82, 192–93, 282, 286–88, 421, 543, 624
in Mexico, see Mexican campaign
morale of, see Morale (esprit de corps) of the Legion
mounted companies, see Mounted companies
mutiny, see Mutiny
myth and lore of, see Myth and lore of the Legion
new legion, 49–69, 75–76
from 1900 to 1914, 289–311
officers of, see Officers of the Legion
organization as of 1939, 445–46
overall evaluation of, 617–34
pay of, see Payment of Legion
public works projects, 17–18, 408, 623
recruitment of, see Recruitment/enlistment in the Legion
redemptive qualities of, 184–85, 425, 625, 629–30
reduction of, in 1867 and 1871, 163, 170–71
régiment de marche de la Legion étrangère (RMLE), 334–83, 412, 418–19, 494, 499, 500, 501, 503
régiment étranger de cavalerie (REC), 383, 385, 392, 406, 407, 445, 492, 499, 511, 515, 534, 535, 548–50, 553, 564, 573
reputation of, 31, 63, 120–21, 123, 212, 298, 335, 338–39, 364, 365–66, 619, 632
retirement from, treatment after, 434–35, 630
in Rif War, 383, 398–406, 408, 421, 429, 623
RMVE created separately from, 445
routine day, 186–90
sappers, 48, 52, 55, 109, 110, 383, 392, 419
selection of regiment, 174
selection of troops for expeditions, 246–48
sex life in, 221, 309–10, 387, 467, 507–8, 546
suicides among, 280–81, 310, 624, 625
surveillance within, 438–39, 623 13e DBLE, 466–85, 490, 493, 494, 495, 497–500, 502, 503, 538, 539, 540, 556, 559, 561, 562, 564, 565, 572–73, 595, 631
training of, see Training
transport to Algeria, 173, 174
uniforms, 189, 289, 414–17, 422–23, 493
“Vichy” Legion, 476–81, 486–92, 502
violence among troops, 198–201, 626
after World War I, 382–409, 412–13
in World War I, 333–81
in World War II, 440–504
Zaatcha, 89–117
French Guiana, 631
French Revolution, 71
Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), 568, 574–603, 610, 614
August 1956 conference of, 580–81
Battle of Algiers, 580–90
Challe offensives against, 593–97, 599
compared to Viet Minh, 570
government in «xile, 599, 601
upon independence, 610, 614
Morice Line, 590–91, 592, 596
Suez crisis and, 579
terrorism carried out by, 569, 570–71, 580, 581, 589, 599
Frontiers, Battle of, 355
Gabon, 476
Gabrielle (Dien Bien Phu), 556, 557, 558
Galant, Abel, 30, 45, 46, 47, 49
Gallieni, General Joseph, 224, 240, 243, 285, 346
on desertion, 329–30
“tâche d'huile” techniques, 242, 320
Gallipoli, 105, 122, 124–25, 372
Galloni d'Istria, Mathieu, 8
Gambetta, Leon, 169
Gambiez, General Fernand, 609
Gamelin, General Maurice, 465
Garcin, Marius, 66
Gardy, General Paul, 606, 610, 614
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 109–10, 346
Garibaldi Legion, 335
Garnier, Francis, 204
Garnier, Jules, 38
Gates of China, 214, 215, 229, 230, 232, 421
Gaullists. See Free French
Gaultier, Lieutenant Colonel, 494, 503, 504
Gauthier, Father, 509
Generals'Plot, 519, 604, 606–16
George VI, King, 473
Gérard, General Etienne, 2
German army, 293, 326, 563
discipline in, 293, 300
Legion recruits from, 395
German Protection League Against the Foreign Legion, 330
Germany, 250, 325, 425
anti-Legion campaign, 171, 290, 293, 330, 333, 366, 409, 413, 428, 625
as arms dealer, 254, 255
as colonial power in Africa, 256
death camps, 488
Franco-Prussian War, 120, 164–67, 170
rivalry with France over Morocco, 289, 290, 333
Third Reich, 436, 447
World War I, 333, 346–47, 351–80
World War II, 441, 443, 457–62, 465–504
Giap, Nyuyen, 511–12, 514, 518–21, 526, 532, 533, 536, 544, 547
Dien Bien Phu and, 556, 558–61
Giovanielli, General, 161
Girardot, Colonel, 331
Giraud, General Henry, 485, 493, 496
Glockner (deserter), 66–67
Goebbels, Joseph, 490
Goldfarb, Pierre, 338
Goumiers, 315–16, 317, 329, 404
Gourard, General Henri, 408
Grand jeu, Le (film), 429–30
Grand Popo, Dahomey, 254
Grant, Ulysses S., 148
Great Britain. See Britain
Grede, Dahomey, 260–61
Greece, 374, 476
Green, Julian, 374, 376
Grisot, General, 110, 164–69, 215, 385
Groupe de volontaires Juifs Russo-Roumains du 18', 336
Groupements de travailleurs étrangers (GTE), 487
Guinea, 247
Guir, Morocco, 313–14, 321, 322
Guiraud, Lieutenant Colonel, 612–13
Gung'l,J. N., 171, 175–76
Hacienda de la Trinidad, 141
Hafid, Abd el-, 102, 103
Haiphong, Tonkin, 204, 227–28
Hallo, General Jean-Pierre, 451–52, 456
Hammada of the Guir, 313
Hangard Wood, France, 377–78
Hanoi, Vietnam, 204, 205, 214, 228, 303, 565
described, 228
during the Indochina War, 513, 515, 520, 525, 526
Han River, 264
Harispe, Jean, 42, 46, 48
Hart, Lionel, 183, 192, 194, 224, 225
on Indochina, 207, 210, 223
Hausas, 252, 255, 260, 276
Hebich, Johan Albrecht, 44–45
Hell in the Foreign Legion (Loehndorf), 430
Hellot, F., 288
Hélo, Captain, 315
Henri d'Orléans, due d'Aumale, 65
Herbillon, General £mile, Zaatcha and, 92–93, 99, 100, 102–11, 113–17
Herbinger, Lieutenant Colonel, 233, 234, 235
Herbsheim, France, 499–500
Hermann, Major, 460–61, 462
Herson, General, 293, 296, 307
Hill 119, 357
Hill 140, 356–57, 362
Hindenburg, Paul von, 378
Hindenburg Line, 379
Historique of the RMLE, 361, 366, 380
Hitler, Adolf, 382, 436, 437, 442, 443, 466, 476, 477, 487, 497
Hoa Binh, Vietnam, 526, 529, 537, 540, 545
Hoa Moc, Battle of, 218, 230
Ho Chi Minh, 510, 512, 513, 514, 517, 527
Hodna plain, 95, 96, 98, 103
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, Prince of, 4
Holmes,
Richard, 196
Hommes sans nom, Les (The Men Without Names) (des Vallieres), 421, 431
Homosexuality, 310
Hong Kong, 203
Honotaux, Gabriel, 268–69
Hora, Charles, 443, 463, 590, 608, 630
Horain, Thadée, 27
Horne, Alistair, 601
Hova army, 269–70, 273–74, 276, 278–80, 282, 283–84, 287, 288
Hova government, 271, 280
Hova monarchy, 268, 288
Hova people, 269, 270, 283, 284
Hubert-Jacques (journalist), 178, 328–29
Huesca, Battle of, 46–47
Huguet, L., 208, 213, 218, 219
Huguette (Dien Bien Phu), 556, 560, 562
Humanité, L,' 345
Hung Hoa, Vietnam, 234
Ikopa River, 274, 275
Illustration, L,' 132
Imperial Guard, French, 129
Indian Mutiny of 1857, 288, 392
Indochina, 170, 194, 203–44, 281, 383, 422, 454, 477, 505–66, 624
attraction of legionnaires to, 219–23
congaïs, 221–22, 230, 507–8, 546
disease in, 207, 219–20, 230, 246, 529
French-Indochina War, see Indochina War
French invasion of, 203–18
officers in, 210–13, 422, 536
opium in, 222, 244
Tonkin, see Tonkin
voyage to, 223–29
during World War II, 510–13
Yen Ba revolt, 508–10
Indochina War, 505–6, 513–66, 572, 581, 619
desertions during, 515, 545–46
Dien Bien Phu, 422, 517, 526, 527, 531, 539, 554–66, 571
groupes mobiles in, 546–48, 563
intelligence during, 538–40
Legion's performance in, 562–64, 623
life in posts in, 543–44
minefields, 574
from 1951 to 1954, 530–34
outbreak of, 513
POWs, 565–66
“POW” system, 542
Route Coloniale 4, attacks on, 517–25, 526, 528, 530, 536, 566
training and manning problems, 530–36
Vietnamization of, 550–54, 623
Inigo, Battle of, 37
Inor Wood, France, 458
International Court at the Hague, 330
Iribarran, General, 46–47
Isabelle (Dien Bien Phu), 556, 559–62
Isabel II, Queen, 23, 25, 29, 30, 41, 42
Ischeriden, Battle of, 131–32, 135, 418, 422–23
Israel, 578
Italian campaign of 1859, 120, 123, 128–32
Italy, 2, 473, 497–99
unification of, 131
Iwo Jima, 512
Jacqueline, Lucien, 223, 296
Jacquin, Henri, 520–21
Jacquot, Lieutenant, 246, 251, 252, 256, 257, 260, 261, 263, 264
Japan, 234, 235, 477, 505, 510–13, 538
Russo-Japanese War, 244
Jeanpierre, Pierre, 584, 586, 591, 607
Jewish legionnaires, 336, 337, 338, 341, 345, 423, 621
anti-Semitism, 360–61, 454–55, 620
mutiny of, 359–62
in Vichy France, 487
before World War II, 436
during World War II, 443, 446, 447, 450, 451–57, 462, 463, 490, 492
Jewish refugees, 442, 443, 444, 486
Joffre, Joseph, 355, 362, 367
Jones, James, 625
Jouandon, Lieutenant, 470, 472
Jouhaud, General Edmond, 602, 609, 612, 614, 616
Jourdan, Marshal Jean-Baptiste, 31
Journal officiel, 218, 336
Juárez, Benito, 143, 144
Juin, General Alphonse, 489, 490, 497, 498
Julien, Charles-André, 51
on Zaatcha, 93–94, 116
Junger, Ernst, 172, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 190, 224, 424
desertion by, 326, 328, 329
on Indochina, 221, 222
Kabyles, 52, 131, 271, 276, 277
Kabylia, Algeria, 92, 120, 131, 594–95
Kader, Abd el-, 19–20, 26, 51, 70, 73–74
Legion deserters to, 66, 67
surrender of, 76, 92
Kamienski, M., 130
Kantara, George, 91
Kanya-Forstner, A. S., 249
Keller, legionnaire, 57
Kelly, Russell, 346, 349
Kemencei, Janos, 579, 605, 624
on Algeria, 571, 573, 574, 613, 614–15
on Indochina, 422, 517, 523, 524, 525, 528, 532, 533, 535, 561, 565–66
King, David, 341, 342
Kipling, Rudyard, 251
Kirwan (Legion officer), 165
Klement (deserter), 545
Klems, Joseph, 396
Knight, E. F., 271–73, 279, 283–86
Koch (deserter), 545
Koenig, Pierre, 473, 478, 482–85
Kolwezi, Zaire, 617–18, 623
Korea, 235, 518
Kotopa, Dahomey, 262, 264
Koto River, 262–66
Krim, Abd el-, 395–406, 623
Kubiak, Stefan, 545, 556–57
Kwangsi army, 229, 230, 234
Kwangsi province, China, 232
Lacour, Lieutenant, 405
Lacretellc, Charles-Nicolas, 68, 79, 83–85
Lalande, André, 556
Lambert, Lieutenant, 150
Lambert, Major, 509
Lamborelle, Louis, 11, 13, 74, 77–83, 86, 87–88
on officer-troop relationship, 85–86, 89
Lamping, Clemens, 121, 626
commentary on Legion in Africa, 57–58, 60, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75, 78–82, 120
Lamy, François, 271
Langlois, Lieutenant, 274–80, 282, 295, 319
Lang Son, Vietnam, 205, 208, 209, 213–16, 217, 221–22, 231
described, 215
French retreat from, 230, 233–35, 307
during Indochina War, 517, 519, 521–26
Route Coloniale 4 attacks, 517, 519, 521–25
during World War II, 510–11
Lao Kay, Vietnam, 242
Laos, 235, 515, 518, 531, 537, 555
Lapeyre, Pol, 399
Lapie, P. O., 448, 451
la Pointe, Ali, 584–85
Larrainzar, Spain, 43–44, 45
Larrasoańa, Spain, 37
Lartéguy, Jean, 582–83
Laurel and Hardy, 426
Lauziére, Jacques, 385, 389
Laval, Pierre, 487
Lebanon, 632
Lebeau. See Baux, Jean-Louis
Lebedev, V., 337, 338, 340
Leblanc, General, 553
Leborgne, legionnaire, 199
Lebrun, Albert, 442
Leclerc, Lieutenant, 308
Lecomte, Colonel, 613
Lee, Robert E., 143
Lefèvre, Charles, 321, 322–23, 325
Légion, La, 435
Légion d'honneur, 379, 418
Légion étrangère, 429
Légionnaire (Weygand), 432
Légion of the Damned (Doty), 430
Légions d'honneurs (film), 430
Lelièvre, Henri Paul, 249, 251–52, 256–60, 262
Le Mire, Henri, 610
Le Monde, 583
Lentonnet, Jean-Louis, 249, 274, 276, 280, 287
Le Page, Marcel, 522–25
Le Poer, John Patrick, 225, 226–27
on discipline, 299–300
on Indochina, 210–13, 220, 230, 232, 234, 239, 241
on recruitment and training, 172, 173, 179, 186–87, 198–201
Leroux, Corporal, 313
Levant
Druse revolt in, 397, 406–7
during World War I, 371
Libreville, Gabon, 473
Lichana, Algeria, 99, 106, 110
Liddell Hart, Adrian, 416, 423, 427, 428, 438, 439, 525–26, 533, 541, 549
Liu Yung-fu, 207, 213
Livre d'or (Brunon et al.), 416, 420, 422, 423, 427
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