Van Lancker, legionnaire, 199
Vatomandry, port of, 269
Vauchez, Captain, 319
Venetia, 128, 131
Veracruz, Mexico, 138, 162
Verdun, Battle of, 334, 355, 368, 370, 372, 380
Versailles, France, 167, 168
Versailles Peace Conference, 394
Vichy France, 464, 471, 475, 476, 477, 486–92, 503, 511, 513, 538
deportations from, 487
fate of foreign volunteers in, 486–88
internment camps in, 487–89
“Vichy” Legion, 476–81, 486–92, 607
Vicksburg, Battle of, 148
Viénot, Colonel, 126
Viet Minh, 221, 422, 505, 510, 511, 513–29, 531, 533, 536–65, 572
defections to, 545–46
FLN compared to, 570
headquarters of, 549
intelligence services, 539
Iron Division, 520, 561
quality of forces, 534
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of, 510, 513. See also Indochina War
Vietnamese, 531, 536, 537. See also Annamese
Vietnamese army, 550–54, 561
formation of, 550–51
training of, 550–52, 563, 564
Vietnam Liberation Army, 511, 515
Vietri, Vietnam, 506–7
Vigy, General, 323
Vilback, Renaud de, 33
Ville de Saint-Nicholas, 251
Vinh, Vietnam, 508, 509
Vinoy, General, 68
Vitoria, Spain, 30–31
Vittini, legionnaire, 185, 190
Voirol, General, 5, 15, 19
Volontaires d'Isabelle, 27
Volunteers of the Charter, 13
von Bolt, Ernst Milson, 149
von Rahden, Baron Wilhelm, 47
von Rosen, G., 27, 40
von Waldersee, Count, 327
Voulet-Chanoine expedition, 250
Wagner, L., 307
Wagner, legionnaire, 16
Wallachia, 124
Ward-Price, G., 415, 426
Waugh, Evelyn, 224–25
Weinrock, legionnaire, 331, 626, 630
Wellington, Duke of, 34, 71
Wenzel, legionnaire, 142
Wergha River, 400
West Algerian Company, 174
Westee, Major, 82
Western Sudan, 247, 248, 249–50, 256, 319
Weygand, General Maxime, 488–89
Weygand, Jacques, 281, 293, 300, 393, 432
White Russian armies, 385, 392
Whydah, slave trading station of, 255–56
Wilson, General Sir Henry Maitland, 477
Wolseley, General Viscount Garneti, 247
World War I, 128, 170, 333–81, 633
desertions during, 375
German defensive strategy, 354–55
integration of foreign volunteers into regular French line regiments, 345–46, 359–60, 361, 363, 374
Legion as elite unit in, 363–81
Legion casualties in, 380
Legion recruits during, 335–40, 344–45, 371–76, 381, 423, 426
mixture of old and new legionnaires during, 340–45, 364, 381, 620–21
mutiny during, 344, 359–64, 367, 369–70
new Legion regiments in, 340
1914, 355, 355–47, 380
1915, 347–64, 367, 370, 380
1916, 368, 369, 380
1917, 368–70, 380
1918, 355, 370–72, 374, 375, 377–79, 380
trench warfare, 346–54, 356–59, 362–63, 369
weaknesses of French forces, 355–56
World War II, 440–504, 525–26, 633
Allied invasion of North Africa, 492, 493
Allied liberation of France, 493, 499–502, 503, 526
fall of France, 455–64, 471
Gaullist-Vichy division of Legion in, 442, 464, 471–85, 492–93, 502
Indochina during, 510–13
integration of foreign volunteers into professional legionnaire forces, 441–43, 446–55, 620–21
Legion recruitment before, 435–36
World Youth Congress, 519
Wren, P. C, 68, 431, 434, 439
Yacef, Saadi, 581, 584
Yellow fever, 140, 158, 162
Yorubas, 263
Ysquierdo, Antoinc, 574–75, 587, 589–90, 607
Yunnanese, 213, 215, 229, 234
Zaatcha, 89–117
Carbuccia's first attack on, 99–101
defenses at, 101
described, 90, 92, 98–99
evaluation of, 116–17
Zaatcha (cont.)
reasons for campaign for, 92–97
second attack on, 104–17
start of rebellion in, 95
strategy for attack on, 106–7
Zaire, 617–18, 623, 632
Zédé, Charles-Jules, 119, 121, 123, 129–30, 132, 133–34, 135
background of, 149
on Dupin, 145, 146
in Mexico, 138, 140, 144, 147, 149, 150, 160, 161
Zeller, General Andre, 602, 609–10, 612, 613
Zéralda, Algeria, 612, 613
Zouaves, 13, 54, 64, 79, 131, 151, 164, 223, 250, 332, 436, 453–54, 611
after 1870, 294–95
in Italian campaign, 129, 131
in Mexico, 155
in World War I, 357
at Zaatcha, 115, 116
Zubiri, Spain, 37, 38, 39, 43
Zumalacárregui, General Tomas, 23, 31–33
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