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...additional year's service, he voluntarily took command of a small forest encampment at El Hourane, a job that no one else wanted because the duty was both dull and dangerous. Early in February this year, the risks caught up with him. Algerian rebels, disguised in the Spahi uniform of Dubos' troopers, overran the El Hourane post, carried Olivier Dubos and 17 of his men into captivity in the Kabylia mountains...
...Prince Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit Louis. Kaiser Wilhelm promptly proposed the German Duke of Urach...
...Jake Devers had fashioned his Strasbourg grip on the Rhine-and his opportunity to expand it-out of surprise and dash. Over the weeks of stalemate he had slipped the fresh, enthusiastic army of Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny into position before Belfort: two French divisions, a colonial Spahi division, a battalion-plus of F.F.I...
...Cruiser Foch, M. Daladier proceeded to Algiers, where Arab chieftains and Zouave and Spahi detachments accompanied him to a monument for Algerian War dead. Here M. Daladier summed up the impressions of his trip: "The Colonials are French-they will stay French...
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud), French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, Academician and Naval officer (Jan. 14, 1850). Author of Le mariage de Loti, Le Roman d'un Spahi, Pêcheur d'lslande, Mon Frère Yves and other colorful novels, frequently drawn from his own experiences in the tropics. Loti's literary influence waned perceptibly during his last years...
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